Definition of originate

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Originate (v. t.) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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Originable :: Originable (a.) Capable of being originated.
Quietist :: Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism..
Generate :: Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause..
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not originated; existing from all eternity.
Superior :: Superior (a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it..
Beginning :: Beginning (n.) That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows..
Coin :: Coin (v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word..
Polygeny :: Polygeny (n.) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis..
Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..
Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease..
Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth..
Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates..
Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes..
Diophantine :: Diophantine (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra..
Found :: Found (v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs..
Antinomian :: Antinomian (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535..
Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
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