2. Primitive; primary; original. [R.]

The grand originary right of all rights.

Hickok.

O*rig"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Originated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.

Originating.] [From Origin.] 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.

O*rig"i*nate, v. i. To take first existence; to have origin or

beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the

governor and council.

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