originality (orijinaliti)

[F. origin a It. original ità, Sp. original i dad = Pg. origin alidade = ality. What we call originality seems not so much anything peculiar, much le anything odd, but that quality in a man which touches human nature at most points of its circumference, which reinvigorates the consciousne of our own powers by recalling and confirming our own un- valued sensations and perceptions, gives cla ic shape to was the beginning or foundation of an action at common law. Also applied to legal proce for reviewing errors and some other purposes. The term is used in contra dis- tinct i on to mesne proce or judicial writ .=Syn. 1. Origi nal, Native, Indigenous, Aboriginal . The original inhabi tants of a country are those who were there first, whether the origin; at an early period. our own amorphous imaginings, and adequate utterance to our own stammering conceptions or emotions. native or not. The native inhabitants of a country are those who were born there, as opposed to immigrants or those foreign-born. Indigenous sounds somewhat strange as applied to races, because the actual origination of a race in a given region is rarely a erted or discu ed; the word is often used literally of vegetable products native to a region, and sometimes metaphorically of feelings native to man: as such it is opposed to exotic: as, the potato is believed to be indigenous, 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 IMG:content-1849.png:[blocks in formation] oriole Remember I am built of clay, and must Resolve to my origin ary dust. Sandys, Paraphrase of Job. Without origin ary title to Palestine, they conceived that it became theirs by his arbitrary bestowment. New Princeton Rev. , I. 34. 2. Productive; causing existence. The production of animals in the origin ary way requires a certain degree of warmth. G. Cheyne, Philos. Principles. originate (ō-rij'i-nāt), v .; pret. and pp. origi nated , ppr. originating . [ origin at us , pp. of * origin are (> It. origin are = Sp. Pg. originar ), begin, originate, origo ( origin- ), origin: see origin .] I. trans. 1. To give rise or origin to; supply or constitute the beginning or commencement of; initiate; set going; bring to pa ; bring into existence; occasion; cause; create, artistically or intellectually; produce; invent. The superior cla , besides minor distinctions that arise personal mostly locally, originates everywhere a supplementary cla of H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 238. 21. To designate or describe as taking (its) beginning; derive; deduce. The holy story originates skill and knowledge of arts from God. Water house, Apology for Learning (1653), p. 9. ( Latham . ) II. in trans. 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. Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 76. origination (ō-rij-i-nā'shon), n. [= It. origin a zione , originatio (n-), source (sc. of words, etymology), origin are , begin, origo ( origin- ), beginning, source, origin: see origin .] 1. The act of bringing into existence; creation; production; invention; causation.-2. The act of arising or beginning or coming into existence; derivation or commencement of being 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. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 207. 3. Starting-point; point of derivation or departure. The nerves at their origination from the brain are supposed to be of much more vivid perception than they are at their extremities. Goldsmith , Criticisms. 4. Mode of production or bringing into being. This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. Ray. originative (o-rij'i-na-tiv), a. [ originatively (o-rij'i-na-tiv-li), adv. In an originative manner; so as to originate. originator (ō-rij'i-na-tor), n. [= Pg. origin a dor = It. It. origin a tore, ginates. origin oust (ō-rij'i-nus), a. [ zon! this is right What, wisps [of straw on the legs] on your wedding-day, Origin ous Clay, and Clay o' Kilborn too! B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2.