This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the
ancient chivalry.
Burke.
2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the
spring; the cause; the occasion.
3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed
during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Origin of coördinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect.
See Note under Ordinate.
Syn. -- Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain; derivation;
cause; root; foundation. -- Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or
commencement of a thing; source presents itself under the image of a
fountain flowing forth in a continuous stream of influences. The origin
of moral evil has been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is
the source of most of the calamities of our race.
I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of
ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat
of their signs.
Tooke.
Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they
to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.
Waller.
O*rig"i*na*ble (?), a. Capable of being originated.