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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·rig·i·nate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Originated p. pr. & vb. n. Originating.]  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.