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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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"Originate" Quotes from Famous Books

... which originate in speculative opinions, or in different views of administrative policy, are in their nature transitory. Those which are founded on geographical divisions, adverse interests of soil, climate, and modes of domestic ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

... to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originate from sustainably managed sources; to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... correctly localized with regard to the situation of this point. This last after-image streak did not always appear; but it appeared regularly if the light at a was bright enough and the background dark.... It was impossible for this second after-image streak to originate in the point b, because it appeared equally when b was only an imaginary fixation-point.... This consideration makes it already conceivable that the two parts of the total after-image are two manifestations of the one identical retinal stimulation, which are ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... habitat and to external nature, have no history.... Only those nations and states belong to history which display self-conscious action; which evince an inner spiritual life by diversified manifestations; and combine into an organic whole what they receive from without, and what they themselves originate." (Introduction to Weber's Allgemeine Weltgeschichte, ...

— Jewish History • S. M. Dubnow

... Canada. In the common history of the world, as compiled by authors in general, almost all the great changes of nations are confounded with changes in their dynasties, and events are usually referred either to sovereigns, chiefs, heroes, or their armies, which do, in fact, originate from entirely different causes, either of an intellectual or moral nature. Governments depend far more than is generally supposed upon the opinion of the people and the spirit of the age and nation. It sometimes happens that a gigantic mind possesses ...

— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy

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