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“original”
original (adjective), more original, most original
1. Relating to something preceding all the others (not comparable): It was important for the lawyer to have the original will, and not a copy of it.
2. Fresh, new, different: The cookbook presented many original recipes with various herbs.
3. Concerning potato chips: Lynn wanted to buy the original kind of potato chips only with salt and not other type of favouring.
2. Fresh, new, different: The cookbook presented many original recipes with various herbs.
3. Concerning potato chips: Lynn wanted to buy the original kind of potato chips only with salt and not other type of favouring.
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-al; -ial, -eal
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oriri-, orir-, ori-, or-
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(Greek: original [first in time], beginning, first cause, origin, ancient, primitive, from the beginning; most basic)
(Greek authentikos > Latin authenticus: original, genuine, authoritative; one who does something himself or herself)
(Latin: to rise, arising, to be born, source, original; the rising sun, east; to ascend, to spring up, to become visible, to appear)
(Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
(Greek: first; foremost, front, earliest form of, original, primitive; chief, principal; usually used as a prefix)
(Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")
(Latin words directly incorporated into English which are essentially without changes from their original spelling)
(Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh; the original meaning of macula seems to have been, "a soiled spot, a spot to be cleaned")
(the mosquito is the original skin diver)
(original skin diver)
(Greek > Latin: to beat, to strike; a blow; a dent, an impression, a mark, original form; a mold; a figure, an image, a form, a kind)
(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)
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original founder
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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original source
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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“original”
The belief taught by Christian preachers that there are some people who will naturally do bad or evil things: There are criminals, and even non-criminals, who are guilty of committing immoral or unacceptable original sins
Original sins come from the fact that we come into this world not as isolated individuals, but as members of the human race inheriting both good and evil features from the human race inheriting both good and evil features from the past.
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sin-, sinn-
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