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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Originate \O*rig"i*nate\, verb (used with an object) [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 civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. --Burke.
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