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Original(l, -ale, a. and n. Also: orrig-, oryg- and -inalle, -ynal(l)(e, -enall(e; also: oreginal, orginall. [ME. (c 1315) and e.m.E. original(e, -all, -ynal, oryginall, -ynall (15th c.), F. original (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), med. L. orig- (1202), oreginale (1480), original document, linea originalis line of descent (c 1325), L. originālis.]

A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something: initial, first, aboriginal. c1420 Wynt. ii. 891.
Amange the eyldys thame to drawe Dyviside swa, that yhe mycht knawe Quha that war orygynale Ib. iii. Prol. 15.
The sentence … Suld move men to besy be Thare statis to kene orygynalle [C. origynale, W. originall] c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 83.
Fra fall mortall, originall, Ws raunsound on the rude 1596 Dalr. I. 120/8.
The original beginning of our lawis 1604 Stewart Mem. .
The quhilkis auld and origenall infefement

2. Existing (in mankind) from the beginning. a. Original sin, as inherited from Adam. Also allusively in other collocations. b. Original justice, as implanted in man at the Creation.a. (1) c1420 Wynt. v. 4098.
Fra the auld syne orygynalle [: hale] c1450 Cr. Deyng 69.
Nan was worthy … to pay that ransone for the oreginall syne at thai ware fylyt with 1490 Irland Mir. I. 48/34.
Ony maner … of syn mortale, veniale, or originale Ib. 81/20. 1494 Loutfut MS. ii b.
Fra al origenall sin & prid a1538 Abell 38 b.
Pelage … said … at all barnis wes borne without originall syn c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1117.
Be this syn originall 1560 Acts II. 527/1. 1561 Knox VI. 363.
We are everie one borne in originall sinne 1580 Conf. Faith in Facs. Nat. MSS. III. lxx.(2) 1536 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 13.
And so this pestiferous infection whiche men calleth originallb. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 61/4.
Originale justice, that men war first creat in Ib. 63/35; etc.
Justice originale causit jn the … lawar part of the saule the wertu of prudence

3. That is the origin, source or archetype of something mentioned or alluded to in the context. 1456 Hay II. 115/10.
Be the quhilkis principles that is to say originale reuglis of documentis quhilkis … men fyndis the said science throuch ? c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxviii. 54.
Thy famous maire … is exampler, loode-ster, and guye, Principall patrone and roose orygynalle c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 89 a/43.
Sen thow art heid Thy leges memberis all … Luke that thow rewll the rute originall [Maitl. F. originale] Thatt [etc.] c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus Prol. 236.
Idilnes is mother radycall Of all vicis and font originall Id. Seven S. Prol. 120.
The perfyte ground, and rute originall Of this storie

b. Of a document: That is the original, not a copy. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 94.
All orriginall charters … should containe the wrytter's name insert therin 1622-6 Bisset I. 12/32.
In December and Januare … as the originall warrand beiris

4. Applied by Wyntoun to histories or chronicles (including his own work), treating of beginnings or early times. c1420 Wynt. i. Prol. h. of ch.(C).
Heir followis the prolog but faill Off the cornykkillis callit originall Ib. Prol. 96.
The tytill of this tretis hale I wyll be caulde orygynale, For that begynnyng sall mak clere Be playne proces owre matere Ib. vi. 287.
The gestis off Frawns orygynale Tretyd thus sayis hystoryale That [etc.] Ib. (W) cxcviii. h. of ch. (S.T.S. ed., I. cv).
Off the cronyklis thus endis the buke That hecht the originall quha will luke

B. noun. 1. The fact of arising from something; origination, derivation. c1420 Wynt. v. Prol. 4.
Off Babylone the storys hale Fra Nynus tais orygynale [C. oryginalle, W. originall] 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 839.
Ȝone is the fontane and originall, Quhairfra the well of Helicon dois fleit Id. Æn. vi. xii. 17.
A hait fyry power … Hevinly begynnyng and original Beyn in thar sedis quhilk we saulys call a1568 Bann. MS. 239 a/27.
Scho is of ladeis principall … Ladeis ressaif originall Of hir alhaill

2. The derivation, extraction, racial or familial origin, of a. a people or race, b. a person.a. c1420 Wynt. i. 69.
Off Adame oure orygynale [C., W. originall], And all oure kynde is cummyn hale Ib. ii. viii. h. of ch.
This chapitere sall tell yhow all hale Off the Scottis orygynale Ib. viii. 1445.
The Stewartis orygenalle The Archedekyne has tretyd hale … In successyve generatyown c1515 Asl. MS. I. 196/13. 1535 Stewart 33584.
In Denmark … begouth thair first originall a1578 Pitsc. (1814) xxii.
Which declaireth thame to tak thair originall of the Irisch nationeb. 1513 Doug. v. xiii. 81.
My ryng, Quarfra thou hes thi first original, As thi kynd grund and cuntre natural Ib. x. xi. 31.
And netheles hys kyn origynall Is renownyt of godly stok ryall 1568 Lyndesay Pref. 397.
To declair the properteis of the authour, nocht onlie externall, as his originall, birth, [etc.] 1577 A. Hay Nobility 7.
The Erle of Huntley … His first originall was from Sir John Gordon, Knight Ib. 11.
The Erle Bothwell … called Hepburn. His originall foorth of England 1678 Ravillac Redivivus (1682) 37.
[He] raised himself to a greater command … than men of his mean original use to arrive unto here

3. The founder of a line or nation, the forefather. 1513 Doug. xii. iv. 16.
The fader Eneas … Of Romane lynnage the originall

4. Place of origin. 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 207.
Ranfurly the antient dwelling place of the family of the Knoxes … was original of the … renouned Mr John Knox

5. An original document, as distinguished from a copy. 1483 Acta Conc. II. cxxix.
The said William … sall have a transsumpt … of the charter … and the said Robert … to have the originale 1533 Incholm Chart. 19.
The forme of the originall remanand in the said regestir 1546 Acts II. 479/2.
The tyme he saw the decrete ..auctentik other principale originale or auctenty copy tharof 1612 Ib. IV. 516/2.
That the haill auld infeftments [etc.] … maks als great faith … as gif the samyn war the orginallis a1633 Hope Major Pract. II. 258.
Orriginall