in principio

American  

[in prin-ki-pi-aw, in-prin-sip-ee-oh] / ɪn prɪnˈkɪ pɪ ɔ, ɪn prɪnˈsɪp iˌoʊ /

adverb

Latin.

1. at or in the beginning; at first.

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in principio

The impressive piece, ready to be installed at Newcastle upon Tyne's Castle Keep, is a modern tribute to the incipit of St John's Gospel in principio erat Verbum - "in the beginning was the Word."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2013

And they lifted their heads while the other part of the Fathers pronounced the response, "Sicut erat in principio, etc."

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

In the exercise then of that private judgment, which the reformers of the sixteenth century asserted, all the Christian world fell into error: yes, all of them; for Luther says, "in principio solus eram."

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste