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Original
Original O*rig"i*nal, n. [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. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) 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.
Original
Original O*rig"i*nal, a. [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.
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