Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to originate; original.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Originating; original.
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- adjective archaic
original
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Examples
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But when he turns from his perceiving and thinking to his willing self he becomes for the first time aware of something deeper than the mere objective presentations of consciousness; he obtains a direct intuition of an originant, causative, and independent self-existence.
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Thought with Being the primitive Trinity represented neither three originant principles nor three transient phases, but three eternal subsistencies in one Divine Mind ....
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Being the primitive Trinity represented neither three originant principles nor three transient phases, but three eternal inherencies in one Divine Mind.
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I am that only one who is self-originant, 'causa sui', whose will must be contemplated as antecedent in idea to or deeper than his own co-eternal being.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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