Category:Originate

O*rig"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Originated; p. pr. & vb. n. Originating.] Etym: [from origin.]

Defn: to give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring Into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the Purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.

Originate O*rig"i*nate, v. i.

Defn: to take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin To exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and Council.