origin 
ends or attachments of a muscle; the part or 
place whence a muscle usually acts: opposed 
to iiixirlinii. (li) The root or- beginning of a 
nervo in the brain or spinal cord. Cranial nerves 
have two origin* Ihc apparent or nii|H>rtlci:d origin, at 
the point where they leave the brain, and the n-;i1 "i il' < i> 
origin, the groups of ganglion-cells to which their roots 
can be traced. Certificate of origin. See certificate. 
Domicile of origin. See domicile, -i Origin of a vec- 
tor, the position of the point dtopboM by a vector. 
Origin of species. See specie*. Pedal origin. See 
origin*, c. [< origin, n. {'{.oni/iun//:} I. trans. 
T ogive rise to; originate; initiate. 
II. intrann. To arise; originate. 
This proverb origined whitest England and Wales were 
at deadly feude. fuller, Worthies, Cardigan, III. 6-1). 
originable (o-rij'i-na-bl), a. [< origin(ate) + 
-Mb. ] Capable of being originated, 
original (o-rij'i-nal), o. and n. [< ME. original, 
< OF. (anil F.) original originel = Sp. Pg. origi- 
nal = It. originate, < LL. originalis, primitive, 
original, < L. origo (origin-), beginning, source, 
origin: see origin.] I. o. 1. Pertaining to the 
origin or beginning; initial; primal; first in or- 
der ; preceding all others : as. the original state 
in which man was created ; the original edition 
of a book. 
Thus male no reason well forsake 
That ihilkc sinne original. 
(foicer, Conf. Amant., v. 
( 'oncerning the original Language of Spain, it was, with- 
out any Controversy, the Bascucnce or Cantahrian. 
HaweU, Letters, ii. 69. 
The original question was, Whether God hath forbidden 
the givingany worship to himself by an image? 
StUlingfleet. 
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of the first 
or earliest stage or state of anything; first or 
earlier as opposed to later; primeval; primi- 
tive; pristine. 
His form had yet not lost 
All her original brightness, nor appear'd 
Less than archangel ruin'd. Milton, P. L., 1. 592. 
3. Having the power to initiate or suggest new 
thoughts or combinations of thought ; creative, 
as author, artist, philosopher, etc.: as, an origi- 
nal genius. 
He [Henryson] had studied Chaucer with the ardour 
and insight of an original mini). 
T. a. Ward, English Poets, I. 187. 
4. Produced directly by an author, artist, or 
authority; not copied, imitated, translated, or 
transcribed: as, the original document; the 
original Greek text ; the original painting. 
In the author's original copy there were not so many 
chasms as appear in the book. Swift, Tale of a Tub, Apol. 
Afterwards dishonestly reprinted as an original article. 
Sumner, Hon. John Pickering. 
Hence 5. Fresh; novel; new; striking; never 
before thought of or used: as, an original idea 
or plan ; an original invention. 
Abbreviated orig. 
Original bills In equity. See bill*.- Original cer- 
tainty, the certainty of an intuitive or self-evident truth. 
Original charter, invoice, jurisdiction, key. Seethe 
nouns. Original line, plane, or point, in persp., a line, 
plane, or point referred to the original object. Original 
package, position. Seethe nouns. Original quauneo, 
primary qualities, in the sense given to that term by Locke ; 
qualities which are in the things themselves, whether they 
are perceived or not. Original Seceders. Sce*eceder. 
Original sin. See sin Original writ, in law, a man- 
datory letter issuing out of the Court of Chancery, which 
was the beginning or foundation of an action at common 
law. Also applied to legal process for reviewing errors 
and some other purposes. The term is used in contradis- 
tinction to mfxne process or judicial irrit. = Syn. 1. Origi- 
nal, Native, Indigenous, Aborigiital. The original inhabi- 
tants of a country are those who were there first, whether 
native or not. The native inhabitants of a country are those 
who were born there, as opposed to immigrants or those 
foreign-horn. Indigenoti* sounds somewhat strange us 
applied to races, because the actual origination of a race 
in a given region is rarely asserted or discussed ; the word 
is often used literally of vegetable products tuttive to a 
region, and sometimes metaphorically of feelings naiiue 
to man : as such it is opposed to exotic : as, the potato is 
believed to be indigenoux, or native, to Peru. Aboriginal 
is used of human beings ; the aboriginal inhabitants of a 
country are those that are found occupying the country by 
civilized discoverers : the North American Indians were 
the aboritfineg or aboriginal inhabitants of the country, 
but are believed to have been preceded by a race not them- 
selves intiigenous, nor perhaps the original occupants of 
the soil. See primary. 3. Inventive, creative. 
II. n. If. Origin ; source ; starting-point ; 
lirst issue ; beginning. 
It hath its original from much grief, from study and 
perturbation of the brain. Shut., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 131. 
Some of our people that are dead took the original of 
their death here. Mourt's Journal, in Appendix to New 
[England's Memorial, p. 349. 
Hence 2t. Parentage; ancestry; pedigree; 
descent; derivation; extraction; birth. 
41 (JO 
This name progeny of evils comes 
From our debate, from our dissension; 
We are their parents and firiginal. 
Shale., H. N. D., li. 1. 117. 
Where our original Is known, we are the less connilmt ; 
among strangers we trust fortune. B. Jonnon, Discoveries. 
She is really a good sort of woman, in spite of In -r 1' >w 
original. Smollett. 
3. That from which anything is derived; source 
of being or existence ; cause ; occasion. 
O glotonye, full of cursednesse ; 
O cause first of our confusioun, 
O original of our dampnacloun. 
Til Crist had bought us with his blood agayn ! 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 38. 
External material things, as the objects of sensation, and 
the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of 
reflection, are to me the only originals from whence all our 
Ideas take their beginnings. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. I. { 4. 
4. A primary stock or type from which varie- 
ties have been developed : as, the dhole of In- 
dia is supposed to have been the original of the 
dog. Of. Earliest condition; primal or primi- 
tive state ; pristine condition, resources, etc. 
Fish will returne an honest gaine, besides all other ad- 
uantages, her treasures hauing yet neuer beene opened, 
nor her originals wasted, consumed, nor abused. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 187. 
His darling sons, 
HmTil headlong to partake with us, snail curse 
Their frail original and faded bliss, 
Faded so soon. Milton, F. I.., ii. 375. 
6. First form; archetype; that which is copied, 
imitated, transcribed, or translated. Specifically 
(a) A person portrayed ; a person as distinguished from 
his portrait, or from any work for which he serves as 
model or artistic motive. 
But here, sir, here is the picture . . . There, sir (flings 
it to him), and be assured I throw tlte original from my heart 
as easily. Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 2. 
(&) A work of art as first produced, and contradistinguished 
from a replica or duplicate made by the artist himself, and 
from a copy, mechanical reproduction, or imitation, (c) 
A writing, document, or literary production, as distin- 
guished from a transcription, paraphrase, modernization, 
or translation ; also, the language in which a work was 
first composed. 
Ere this time the Hebrew tongue might have been 
gained, that the Scriptures may now be read in their own 
original. Milton. 
Compare this translation with the original, [the reader] 
will find that the three first stanzas are rendered almost 
word for word, and not only with the same elegance, but 
with the same short turn of expression. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 229. 
7. A person who producps a novel and unique 
impression; a person of marked individuality 
of character ; an eccentric person ; an oddity. 
A man may be an original. Wycherley, Plain Dealer. 
Mr. Doggett, the greatest original in low comedy that 
has ever yet appeared. Life of Qvin (reprint 1887), p. 1C. 
originality (o-rij-i-nal'i-ti), n. [< F. origina- 
litf = Sp. originalidafl = Pg. originalidtide = 
It. originalihl, < ML. *originalita(t-)s, < LL. ori- 
ginalis, original : see original.] The quality or 
state of being original, (o) The quality of being 
first-hand; authenticity; genuineness: as, the originality 
of a painting. (6) The quality of being novel, new, or 
fresh; novelty; newness; freshness, (c) The power of 
originating or producing new thoughts, or uncommon 
combinations of thought; distinct intellectual individu- 
ality. 
What we call originality seems not so much anything 
peculiar, much less anything odd, but that quality In a 
man which touches human nature at most pointa of its 
circumference, which reinvigorates the consciousness of 
our own powers by recalling and confirming our own un- 
valued sensations and perceptions, gives classic shape to 
our own amorphous imaginings, and adequate utterance 
to our own stammering concept ions or emotions. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser. , p. 203. 
originally (o-rij'i-nal-i), arfr. 1. At first; at 
the origin ; at an early period. 
For what originally others writ 
May be so well disgnis'd and so Improv'd, 
That with some justice it may pass for yours. 
RoKommon, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. 
Our club consisted originally of fifteen. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 132. 
2. From the beginning or origin ; from the first. 
We have all naturally an equal right to the throne : we 
are all originally equal. Goldsmith, Vicar, xix. 
3. As first author, creator, or inventor; hence, 
in a novel or characteristically individual man- 
ner. 
originalness (o-rij'i-nal-nes), H. The quality or 
s I ; 1 1 o of being original Johnston. 
Originant (o-rij'i-nant). a. [< ML.*0ri0iian(t-)s, 
ppr. of "originare, begin, originate: see origi- 
nate.] Tending to originate; original. B. Wil- 
liams. 
originary (o-rij'i-na-ri), a. [= F. originaire = 
Sp. Pg. It. originario, < LL. originarius, ori- 
ginal, native, ^ L. origo (origin-), origin : see 
origin.] 1. Primitive; original. 
oriole 
I:- INI lul.n I am liitill of clay, anil must 
Resolve to my originary iliint. 
Sandys, Taraphrasc of Job. 
Without i.ri./Knirv lilli- lo J'ali^tiln-. Ml' V ' oun iveil that 
it iiivainu theirs by his arbitrary bestownii-nt. 
New Princeton Rev. , I. 34. 
2. Productive; causing existence. 
The production of animals In the iiriyinarii way requires 
a certain degree of warmth. G. Cheyne, Philos. Principles. 
Originate (o-rij'i-uat), r. ; pret. and pp. orit/i- 
natett, ppr. originating. [< ML. * originatun, pp. 
of "originare ( > 1 1 . m-igmare = 8p. Pg. originar), 
begin, originate, < L. orign (origin-), origin: 
see origin.] I. trait*. 1. To give rise or ori- 
gin to; supply or constitute the beginning nr 
commencement of; initiate; set going; bring 
to pass; bring into existence; occasion; cause; 
create, artistically or intellectually; produce; 
invent. 
The superior class, besides minor distinctions that arise 
locally, orimnatr* everywhere a supplementary class of 
personal adherents who are mostly also warriors. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of SocloL, $ 238. 
2t. To designate or describe as taking (its) be- 
ginning; derive; deduce. 
The holy story originates skill and knowledge of arts 
from Cud. 
Waterhtnue, Apology (or Learning (1653), p. 9. (Latham.) 
H. intranx. To arise; take (its) rise; find a 
starting-point or source ; begin. 
In the genus Verbascum, hybrids are supposed to have 
often originated in a state of nature. 
Daririn, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 76. 
origination (o-rij-i-na'shon), B. [= It. origina- 
zione, < L. origiimtio(n-), source (sc. of words, 
etymology), < (ML.) 'originare, begin, < origo 
(origin-), beginning, source, origin : see origin.] 
1. The act of bringing into existence; crea- 
tion; production; invention; causation. 2. 
The act of arising or beginning or coming into 
existence ; derivation or commencement of be- 
ing or existence; beginning; first stage or state. 
A rare Instance or two of the origination of fever and 
ague in this [New England] neighborhood may be found 
in recent medical records. 
0. W. Uolmet, Old Vol. of Life, p. 207. 
3. Starting-point; point of derivation or de- 
parture. 
The nerves at their origination from the brain are sup- 
posed to be of much more vivid perception than they are 
at their extremities. Goldsmith, Criticisms. 
4. Mode of production or bringing into being. 
This ernca is propagated by animal parents, to wit but- 
terflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. 
Kay. 
originative (o-rij'i-na-tiv), . [< originate + 
-ire.] Having power to originate or bring into 
existence; creative; inventive. 
Oliginatively (o-rij'i-na-tiv-li), aili: In an 
originative manner; so as to originate. 
originator (o-rij'i-na-tor), n. [= Pg. origina- 
dor = It. ori'ginatore, < ML. "originator, < "ori- 
ginare, begin : see origination.] One who ori- 
ginates. 
originoust (o-rij'i-nus), a. [< origin + -ous.] 
Same as original, 2. 
What, wisps [of straw on the legs] on your wedding-day, 
701 1 ! this is right 
Oriifinous Clay, and Clay o' Kilborn too ! 
B. J onion, Tale of a Tub, L 2. 
orignal (o-rig'nal), n. [= F. orignal (Cuvier); 
supposed to be of Ainer. Ind. origin.] The 
American moose, Alcex americana, one of whose 
former technical names was Cerrus orignal. 
It were to be wished that Naturalists who are acquaint- 
ed with the renne and elk of Europe, and who may here- 
after visit the northern parts of America, would examine 
well the animals called there by the names of grey and 
black moose, caribou, orignal. and elk. 
Jeferson, Notes on Virginia (1787), p. 88. 
orillion, orillon (o-ril'yon), . [< F. orilloti, 
oreitlon, almonds of the ears, mumps, in fort, 
orillion, < oreille, ear: see orcillette.] In fort., a 
rounding of earth, faced with a wall, raised on 
the shoulder of those bastions that have case- 
mates, to cover the cannon in the retired flank, 
and prevent their being dismounted. 
oriloget, . A Middle English form of horologe. 
orinalt, . An obsolete form of urinal. 
orinasal (6-ri-na'zal). a. and n. [< L. os (or-), 
the mouth, + nasvs, the nose: see nasal.] I. 
a. Pertaining to both the nose and the mouth. 
II. H. See the quotation. 
If the nasal passage is left open at all. the vowel is "na- 
salized." and as It resounds partly in the nose and partly 
in the mouth it becomes an orinasal. 
Encye. Brit., XXJI. 383. 
oriolf, . An obsolete form of oriel. 
oriole (o'ri-61), . [< OF. oriol = Pr. auriol = 
Sp. oriol = Pg. oriolo (NL. Oriolus), oriole, lit. 
