Origin(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
Origin(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Origin(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Originable(a.) Capable of being originated.
Original(a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
Original(a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
Original(a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Original(a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
Original(n.) Origin; commencement; source.
Original(n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
Original(n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.
Original(n.) A person of marked eccentricity.
Original(n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
Originality(n.) The quality or state of being original.
Originally(adv.) In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
Originally(adv.) At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.
Originalness(n.) The quality of being original; originality.
Originant(a.) Originating; original.
Originate(v. i.) To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.
Originate(v. t.) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
Originated(imp. & p. p.) of Originate
Originating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Originate
Origination(n.) The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
Origination(n.) Mode of production, or bringing into being.
Originative(a.) Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
Originator(n.) One who originates.

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