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Originate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.