Category:Original

O*rig"i*nal, a. Etym: [f. original, l. originalis.]

1. 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. His form had yet not lost all her original brightness. Milton.

2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an Original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of Thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. Original sin (theol.), the first sin of adam, as related to its Consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also Total depravity. See calvinism.

Original O*rig"i*nal, n. Etym: [cf. F. original.]

1. Origin; commencement; source. It hath it original from much grief. Shak. And spangled heavens, a shining frame, their great original proclaim. Addison.

2. 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. The scriptures may be now read in their own original. Milton.

3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [r.] Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.

4. A person of marked eccentricity. [colloq.]

5. (zoöl. & bot.)

Defn: 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.