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Gregorian :: Gregorian (a.) Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name..

Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates..

Superior :: Superior (a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it..

Originate :: Originate (v. t.) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society..

Sensationalism :: Sensationalism (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism..

Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope..

Babism :: Babism (n.) The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements..

Quietist :: Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism..

Antinomian :: Antinomian (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535..

Found :: Found (v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family..

Bartlett :: Bartlett (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts..

Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows..

Rheomotor :: Rheomotor (n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.

Source :: Source (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause..

Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles

Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes..

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