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[Lat., from Gr. oreiganon, oreig anos=wild marjoram.] Bot.: Marjoram; the typical genus of the family Origan ide. Calyx five-toothed or two-lipped, with ten to thirteen nerves. Upper lip of the corolla erect, nearly plane; lower one patent, trifid. Stamens diverging, the connective sub-triangular. Small, often hoary, much-branched aromatic shrubs. Known species twenty-one. Origanum vulgare , the Common Marjoram, is familiar. [MARIn India O. heracleoticum and O. normale are used JORAM.] O. dictamnus is the Cretan Dittany (q. v). as pot-herbs. O. marjorana is a seasoning herb. O. sipyleum is the Hop-plant, sometimes cultivated in cottage windows. " Origan or orgament, which in tast (as wee have said) resembleth saverie."-P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xx., ch. xvii. Ör-I-gen-Işm, s. [Eng., ., Origen ; -ism.] Church Hist.: The name given to a corpus of religious opinions attributed to Origen (A. D. 185253), a Father of the Church, and one of the most learned writers of his age. He was chief catechist at Alexandria, and was ordained priest, though he had rendered himself physically unfit from an erroneous conception of the teaching of Jesus in Matthew xix. 12. He was deposed from the priesthood in A. D. 229. The opinions attributed to him were: (1) That there is an inequality between the Persons of the Trinity, the Father being the greatest; (2) the preexistence of human souls includ. ing that of Christ; (3) that mankind will not have material bodies at the Resurrection; (4) the limited duration of the punishment of the wicked and of the evil spirits; and (5) the re-absorption of all intelligent beings into the Source of Being whence they sprang. Ör-i-gen-Ist a. . [Eng., ., Origen ; -ist.] A. As adj .: Belonging to or characteristic of either of the sects described under B. (More usually of the former.) "A very able defense of Origenist opinions was printed anonymously, in the year 1661, by Rust, Bishop of Dro. more."- Blunt: Dict. Sects, p. 398. B. As substantive : Church History ( pl .): 1. Those who held all or any of the opinions at tributed to Origen of Alexandria. In A. D. 544 Just in i an 1. i ued an edict against them, and the Fifth General Council (the Second of Constantinople) condemned them in 553. 2. A sect mentioned by Epiphanius, as the followers of an Origen of whom nothing is known. They are spoken of as addicted to shameful vices. Õ-rig-en-ist-Ic, a. [Eng., ., Origen; -istic.] Belonging to or characteristic of the sect founded by Origen of Alexandria. IMG:content-0369.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Ithink he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas."- Tooke : Diversions of Purley , vol. i., ch. ii. 2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the source, fountain, cause, or occasion of anything; that from which anything derives its existence or beginning. "The origin of forms hath been found one of the most perplexed enquiries that belong to natural phil. osophy."-Boyle: Works, iii. 37. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; origin ant 3. Descent, derivation. Origin of a muscle: Anat.: The more fixed extremity of a muscle, when this can be ascertained. (Quain.)