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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ORIGINA'TION, n.
1 The act of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
Descartes first introduced the fancy of making a world, and deducing the origination of the universe from mechanical principles.
2. Mode of production or bringing into being.
This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception]
2: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration]

Merriam Webster's

noun see originate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Origination O*rig`i*na"tion, n. [L. originatio.] 1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. ``The origination of the universe.'' --Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. --Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. --Ray.

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