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Meanings of primum mobile in English

An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause.

Synonyms
Examples for "first cause"
Examples for "first cause"
1
Avoid envy which was the first cause of the loss of mankind.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
2
This is the first cause which, in this country, renders brick allowable.
The Poetry of Architecture / Or, the Architecture of the Nations...
3
His devotion to her did not at first cause them any wonderment.
Paul Faber, Surgeon
4
Thou art the first cause of all the worlds thyself being eternal!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
5
This was the first cause of the union of the kingdoms.
The Leading Facts of English History
1
And the prime mover in the conspiracy had not yet been tried.
The Honor of the Name
2
Perhaps the prime mover was a dust mote or a single molecule-somewhere
The Great Book of Amber
3
So now the prime mover in the revolt was in prison.
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
4
She is the prime mover in all the charitable movements at the Madeleine.
Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel
5
He was prime mover in the May games, and the feast of fools.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
Usage of primum mobile in English
1
The sphere which approaches most nearly to it is called the primum mobile.
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...
2
The ninth was the primum mobile, and inclosing all was the tenth heaven-theEmpyrean.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
3
No, I of only I want you to tell us what was the primum mobile in the matter.
Three Comedies
4
In thirty lines his patron is a river, the primum mobile, a pilot, a victim, the sun, any thing and nothing.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
5
And this is why that first moved-thePrimum Mobile-hassuch extremely rapid motion.
The Banquet (Il Convito)
6
The ninth, or Primum Mobile, revolved by the Seraphim, is the abode of the moral philosophers.
National Epics
7
The fixed unit of time is the day which is established by the revolution of the Primum Mobile.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise
8
"The primum mobile of the new system was Motion, in distinction from the rest which marked the old monastic retreats."
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages