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Originate

Originate Meaning & Definition
Originate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Originate?

[v] bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"
[v] come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship,"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
[v] begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Originate: arise | develop | grow | initiate | rise | spring up | start | uprise

Related Terms | Find terms related to Originate: arise | author | be born | bear | become | beget | begin | birth | break ground | break out | break the ice | breed | bring about | bring forth | bring into being | bring to effect | bring to pass | burst forth | call into being | cause | coin | come | come forth | come from | come out | come to be | commence | compose | conceit | conceive | conceptualize | concoct | contrive | cook up | create | crop up | derive | derive from | design | develop | devise | discover | do | dream up | effect | effectuate | emanate | emerge | engender | erupt | establish | evolve | experience imaginatively | fabricate | fancy | fantasize | father | fictionalize | flow | form | formulate | found | frame | generate | gestate | get to be | give being to | give birth to | give occasion to | give origin to | give rise to | grow | hatch | have origin | head | head up | ideate | imagine | improvise | inaugurate | initiate | innovate | institute | introduce | invent | irrupt | issue | issue forth | launch | lead | lead off | lead the way | make | make do with | make up | mastermind | mature | mint | mold | occasion | organize | parent | pioneer | plan | precede | proceed | procreate | produce | realize | result | revolutionize | rise | set afloat | set on foot | set up | shape | sire | spawn | spring | spring from | spring up | stand first | start | stem | stem from | strike out | suppose | take birth | take rise | take the initiative | take the lead | take the plunge | think out | think up | usher in | work

See Also | become | begin | come | come forth | create | date back | date from | emerge | follow | go back | lead up | make | originate in | resurge | set | start | swell | well up

Originate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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