primum mobile

Noun

Meaning

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prime mover first cause keystone cause father author drive agent parent generator maker originator mover beginner sire

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Antonyms

end mother child destroyer offspring devil

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Hypernyms

cause causal agency causal agent

Examples

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. Friedrich Nietzsche

God is the first cause Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Primulales primulin primuline primus primus motor Primus stove