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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pri·mum mo·bi·le /ˈpraɪməmˈmobəli, ˈpri-/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pri·mum mob·i·le  Astron. 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.
    The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile.   --Bacon.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 primum mobile
      n : a self-caused agent that is the cause of all things; "God is
          the first cause" [syn: first cause, prime mover]