Originated
[ə'ridʒineitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Originate
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Examples
- Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Department may have either originated, or confirmed, a Minute making that recommendation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Alexander Bain of Edinburgh in 1845-46 originated the modern automatic chemical telegraph. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Edison always stood shoulder to shoulder with his associates, but no one ever questioned the leadership, nor was it ever in doubt where the inspiration originated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ringing of the curfew originated in England by William the Conqueror, who directed that at the ringing of the bell at eight o’clock all fires and lights should be extinguished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So I said boldly, as if I had originated it, and must beg to insist upon it, Massive and concrete. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Or he may have originated it altogether, if he had the cleverness. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Gryce's interest in Americana had not originated with himself: it was impossible to think of him as evolving any taste of his own. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I may claim the merit of having originated the suggestion that the will should be looked for in the box. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It originated with Volta, Cruikshank, and Wollaston in the very first year of the century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She knew that his very reserve had originated in a tenderness for her, which might be cowardly, but was not unfeeling. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The application of oil colours and designs to ware before baking by the bat system of printing originated in the eighteenth and was perfected in the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Her progress in the family began in the time of the last Sir Leicester and originated in the still-room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Of course I contradict the tale everywhere; but it is very vexing, and I wonder how it could have originated. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The having originated a precaution which was already in course of execution, was a great relief to Miss Pross. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In these and her clean dress originated a fable that she was well to do in the world: one might say, for her station, rich. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was the Catalan furnace, so named from the province of Catalonia, where it probably first originated, and it is still so known and extensively used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A German originated the soda and acid type of extinguisher from tests made in Denmark between 1830 and 1835. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have originated nothing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Was it known how it originated? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This name originated with the French, and several Frenchmen patented velocipedes from 1800 to 1821. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is believed to have originated about the year 1500 in Scotland. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They have originated over one hundred new kinds of glass. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am the only free white man of mature age, who has accomplished this since Byron originated the expression. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The friends of the acquitted prisoner had dispersed, under the impression--which he himself had originated--that he would not be released that night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Before the 1844 reduction to practice, Morse had originated and laid the first submarine telegraph. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- According to one scientific hypothesis, Species originated by means of natural selection, or, through the preservation of favored races in the struggle for lif e. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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