Christmas Day
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Original
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
(2):
(n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.
(3):
(n.) A person of marked eccentricity.
(4):
(a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
(5):
(a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
(6):
(n.) Origin; commencement; source.
(7):
(n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
(8):
(a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
(9):
(n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Original'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/original.html. 1828.
