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Original   /ərˈɪdʒənəl/   Listen
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adjective
1.
Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.  "The book still has its original binding" , "Restored the house to its original condition" , "The original performance of the opera" , "The original cast" , "Retracted his original statement"
2.
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary.
3.
Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of.  "With original music" , "An original mind"
4.
Not derived or copied or translated from something else.  "He kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox" , "The translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"
noun
1.
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made.  Synonyms: master, master copy.
2.
Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies.  Synonyms: archetype, pilot.



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... The original is missing text following this mark. Both it and a reprint of the same were searched and were printed ...
— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... said Mr. Somers, "of a very curious and original painting I saw in England. It represented the ...
— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage

... the respective States, with a single exception. This exception gives breadth and emphasis to the efficiency of the clause. It will be remembered that all this can be done within the present Constitution. It is a part of the original bargain. Thus, New York can legally be deprived of the authority to punish for theft, to lay out highways, to incorporate banks, and all the ordinary interests over which she at present exercises control, every human being within her limits dissenting. ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... were learned in this direction, while others went to Italy to acquire the necessary knowledge—the result has been to show the perishable nature of the means used, in this climate at least, since the pictures on the walls of the Houses of Parliament have become but dim, fast-fading shadows of the original representations. In the early days of the movement the Prince, in order the better to test and encourage a new development of art in this country, gave orders for a series of fresco paintings from Milton's "Comus," in eight lunettes, to decorate a pavilion in the grounds ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler

... did, brilliant talents, unfailing courage and determination, and an intense devotion to the cause; but the order of his genius raised him above them all, and marked him out from the first as the head and front of the patriot party. He was one of the original founders of the Society of United Irishmen, which was formed in Belfast in the year 1791. In its early days this society was simply a sort of reform association, a legal and constitutional body, having for its chief object the removal of the frightful oppressions by which the ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various


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