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o·rig·i·nal Audio Help / əˈrɪdʒ / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ uh -rij -uh -nl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective 1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.
6. being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made: The original document is in Washington.
–noun 7. a primary form or type from which varieties are derived.
8. an original work, writing, or the like, as opposed to any copy or imitation: The original of this is in the British Museum.
9. the person or thing represented by a picture, description, etc.: The original is said to have been the painter's own house.
10. a person whose ways of thinking or acting are original: In a field of brilliant technicians he is a true original.
11. Archaic .
12. Archaic .
[Origin:
1300–50; ME < L
orīginālis (adj.) and ML
orīgināle original document (n. use of neut. adj.), equiv. to
orīgin- (see
origin ) +
-ālis -al 1 ]
—Synonyms 1 .7 .
—Antonyms 7 .
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Synonym Collection v1.1 Cite This Source Main Entry: original Part of Speech: adjective Synonyms: aboriginal , archetypal , authentic , autochthonous , creative , earliest , endemic , first , genetic , inceptive , indigenous , ingenious , inventive , native , primary , primeval , primitive , primordial , pristine , productive , prototypal , causative , fontal , generative , germinal , germinative , neoteric , primogenial , primogenital , protogenic , seminal , underivative Source: Synonym Collection v1.1
Encyclopedia Articles
(1,111 more entries. View all » ) original sin, in Christian theology, the sin of
Adam , by which all humankind fell from divine
grace . Saint
Augustine was the fundamental theologian in the formulation of this doctrine, which states that the essentially graceless nature of humanity requires redemption to save it. The purpose of
baptism is to wash away original sin and to restore the individual to an innocent state, although even after baptism a tendency to sin remains as a result of original sin.
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