资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Originate \O*rig"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Originated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Originating}.] [From {Origin}.]
   To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring
   into existence; to produce as new.

         A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass,
         for the purpose of originating a new civil order.
                                                  --Burke.