Original /(?)/

O·rig·i·nal

Original

a.
  1. 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.
    His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.
  2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
  3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
  4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

Phrases & Compounds
Original sin
the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

Original

n.
  1. Origin; commencement; source.
    It hath it original from much grief.
    And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
  2. 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.
    The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.
  3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]
    Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
    — C. G. Leland.
  4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]
  5. 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. (Zool. & Bot.)