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Original   /ərˈɪdʒənəl/   Listen
Original

adjective
1.
Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.  "The book still has its original binding" , "Restored the house to its original condition" , "The original performance of the opera" , "The original cast" , "Retracted his original statement"
2.
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary.
3.
Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of.  "With original music" , "An original mind"  Antonym: unoriginal.
4.
Not derived or copied or translated from something else.  "He kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox" , "The translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"
noun
1.
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.  Synonyms: master, master copy.
2.
Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies.  Synonyms: archetype, pilot.



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"Original" Quotes from Famous Books



... due to two other claimants to recognition as original records from the life of Jesus. One class is represented by that word of the Lord which Paul quoted to the Ephesian elders at Miletus (Acts xx. 35). Scattered here and there in writings of the apostolic and succeeding ...
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees
... which he treats, that has come under my notice. In the Notes will be found minor points of dissent from the Doctor's views, and from multiplied aberrations of many others. I have studied great plainness of speech, abstaining from the introduction of many verbal criticisms on the original text, and from the use of terms and phrases not familiar to the unlearned reader. Let no sincere Christian be deterred by seeming difficulties from reading the Apocalypse, or be dissuaded from searching it, by the ...
— Notes On The Apocalypse • David Steele
... town. I have never met a more interesting man. He was an onlooker of life rather than an actor, an ironical cynic, chuckling with sardonic humour. The secret of his charm lay perhaps in a certain whimsical outlook and in an original ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... and mystical deity, and the problem of his origin is consequently rendered exceedingly difficult. Philologists are not agreed as to the derivation of his name, and present as varied views as they do when dealing with the name of Osiris. Some give Ashur a geographical significance, urging that its original form was Aushar, "water field"; others prefer the renderings "Holy", "the Beneficent One", or "the Merciful One"; while not a few regard Ashur as simply a dialectic form of the name of Anshar, the god who, in the Assyrian version, or copy, of the Babylonian ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... in England, believed perhaps by some, half believed by many more, which is only consistent with original ignorance, or complete subsequent forgetfulness, of all the antecedents of the contest. There are people who tell us that, on the side of the North, the question is not one of slavery at all. The North, it seems, ...
— The Contest in America • John Stuart Mill


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