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Originate

verb

(past & past part. originated; pres. part. originating)

Come into existence; take on form or shape. Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise. "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

Bring into being. Synonyms: initiate, start. "Start a foundation"

Begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc..

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... he could not help suspecting the best of men falsely. Mrs. Quackenboss admitted it was natural to have suspicions—"Especially," she said, with candour, "as you're not the first to observe the notable way Elihu's hair seems to originate from his forehead," and she pulled it up to show us. But Elihu himself sulked on in the dumps: his dignity was offended. "If you wanted to know," he said, "you might as well have asked me. Assault and battery is not the right way ...

— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen

... architecture to the country in which it is found has been commented on. Ordinarily such adaptation would imply two things—origin within the country, and a long period of time for development—but there are several factors that must be taken into consideration. If the architecture did not originate in the country where it is found it would almost certainly bear, traces of former conditions. Such survivals are common in all arts, and instances of it are so common in architecture that no examples need be cited. Only one of these survivals has been found in pueblo architecture, but that one is ...

— The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff

... v. 24? These are really nothing else but indications either of a mutilated or else an interpolated text. And the question to be resolved is,—On which side does the corruption lie? and, How did it originate? ...

— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

... State Suffrage Association includes in its report of the doings at the Constitutional Convention a report of its legislative work for the twenty-two years of its existence. Of the many petitions presented during those years, but three relate to anything but Suffrage in some form, and these did not originate with the New York Suffrage Association. One of these three related to the bill to secure police matrons in New York City. Work was begun in 1882 and ended in success in 1891, there being strong opposition to it. The act to provide woman physicians for prisons, and one ...

— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson

... accustomed to arms, and fond of military achievements; where the youth who has practised the bow and spear from his infancy, longs for nothing so much as an opportunity to display his valour, it is natural to imagine, that wars frequently originate from very frivolous provocation. When one nation is more powerful than another, a pretext is seldom wanting for commencing hostilities. Thus, the war between Kajaaga and Kasson was occasioned by the detention ...

— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park

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