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Ab initio   /æb ɪnˈɪtioʊ/   Listen
Ab initio

adverb
1.
At the beginning.  Synonym: initially.






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"Ab initio" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps rendered it necessary twice a month. Only in October, I recollect they had come out three times. Yet, "the traps are out" was annoying, but not exasperating. Not exasperating, because John Bull, 'ab initio et ante secula', was born for law, order, and safe money-making on land and sea. They were annoying, because, said John, not that he likes his money more than his belly, but he hates the bayonet: I mean, ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello

... perfectly possible for one group of scholars, relying upon the undeniably Christian-Legendary elements, preponderant in certain versions, to maintain the thesis that the Grail legend is ab initio a Christian, and ecclesiastical, legend, and to analyse the ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston

... nitebatur, per verba proverbii quod pro themate sumpserat, introducere et probare, ab initio omnes pares creatos a natura, servitutem per injustam oppressionem nequam hominum introductam, contra voluntatem Dei; quia si Deo placiusset servos creasse utique in principio mundi constituisset quis servus, quisve dominus futurus fuisset." ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand



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