Word Finder - originals

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An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived

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This manuscript is the original.

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A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent

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You’re a real original.

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An eccentric

They were all originals, upwards of $20,000 each.

All the Originals have been freed and expelled.

Sofi said the Originals aren't what we've been led to believe them to be.

Do you remember much of the Originals?

The Originals have a truce that's older than all of us combined.

I imagine they'll blame you Originals for this one as well.

I can't get into specifics, but two Originals have gone missing.

One of five Original Beings, he'd landed on earth when the Originals escaped from their immortal exile.

Maybe you are not old enough to remember, Other, but the Gatekeeper existed before the Originals.

Something about how Originals stick together, Bianca said.

The Others were not so fortunate, though the Originals all escaped.

I am here, because we Originals are obligated to one another.

We Originals gotta stick together.

When Xander tells the story, it was the Originals that did it.

Jule was right; he owned nothing else, but the number of people who knew about the gem was limited to the Originals and Sofi.

We didn't know the Originals like him were still alive until a few months ago.

The only creatures that knew about his necklace were the Originals.

All the Originals do.

We Originals are forbidden from fighting one another.

The plays of Plautus are all based on Greek originals.'

In the first half of the 13th century, Abraham ibn Ilasdai, a vigorous supporter of Maimonides, translated (or adapted) a large number of philosophical works from Arabic, among them being the Sepher ha-tappuah, based on Aristotle's de Anima, and the Mozene Zedeq of Ghazzali on moral philosophy, of both of which the originals are lost.

Some of these objects, such as certain forms of swords and vases, seem to be of local fabric, but derived from originals going back to the beginning of the Late Minoan age.

In the former case the cartographer is merely called upon to reduce and generalize the information given by his originals, to make a judicious selection of place names, and to take care that the map is not overcrowded with names and details.

The Strassburg Ptolemy of 1513 has a supplement of as many as 20 modern maps by Martin Waldseemiiller or Ilacomilus, several among which are copied from Portuguese originals.

During the first centuries both branches of the Church had used vestments substantially the same, developed from common originals; the alb, chasuble, stole and pallium were the equivalents of the anxItinov, e t fvoXcov, copapcov and 1 The rationale is worn only over the chasuble.

But this is only true with certain reservations; for the Latin Vulgate was revised by Jerome according to the Hebrew, and, where Hebrew originals were wanting, according to the Septuagint.

That it was used also in official documents and ordinances is shown by copies of formularies of oaths, the import of which proves beyond a doubt that the originals belonged 1301- to the reigns of Louis I.

A much easier method, applicable to glass originals, is that of photographic reproduction by contact printing.

Beginning with the earliest versions of the Bible, which seem to date from the 2nd century A.D., the series comprises a great mass of translations from Greek originals - theological, philosophical, legendary, historical and scientific. In a fair number of cases the Syriac version has preserved to us the substance of a lost original text.

Though without claims to creative originality, Terence must have had not only critical genius, to enable him fully to appreciate and identify himself with his originals, but artistic genius of a high and pure type.

Neither of these passages would fit the prose romance, as we know it, but both might well suit the lost French source of the Lanzelet; where we are in a position to compare the German versions of French romances with their originals we find, as a rule, that the translators have followed their source faithfully.

There is no doubt that his work is chiefly a compilation; and Daremberg, with other scholars, has traced a large number of passages of the Latin text to the Greek originals from which they were translated.

The works bearing his name are, as has been said, entirely based upon the Greek of Soranus, but are important both because their Greek originals are lost, and because they are evidence of the state of medical practice in his own time.

Nearly all medieval medical literature was condemned under this name; and for it the humanists proposed to substitute the originals of Hippocrates and Galen, thus leading back medicine to its fountain-head.

This is decorated with circles of rosettes of blue, green and red enamel, each surrounded by lines of gold; within the circles are little figures evidently suggested by antique originals, and precisely like similar figures found on carved ivory boxes of Byzantine origin dating from the II th or 12th century.

A considerable amount of Semitic Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be the old agglutinative language of Chaldaea.

The forms of Assyrian pottery, however, are graceful; the porcelain, like the glass discovered in the palaces of Nineveh, was derived from Egyptian originals.

The two poems give evidence of genius and trained skill, though the poet was no doubt hampered by the necessity of not deviating too widely from the sacred originals.

In some cases the originals have been brought to Europe, in other cases only squeezes of the inscriptions.

The poetry of the nation remained immovable in the ancient groove until very modern times, when, either by direct access to the originals or through the medium of very defective translations, the nation became acquainted with the masters of Occidental song.

But he has ever in form so far surpassed his originals that he alone has gained for the pure didactic poem a place among the highest forms of serious poetry, while he has so transmuted his material that, without violation of truth, he has made the whole poem alive with poetic feeling.

For some notice of the Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew translations of works professedly by Hippocrates (Ibukrat or Bukrat), the number of which greatly exceeds that of the extant Greek originals, reference may be made to Fliigel's contribution to the article " Hippokrates " in the Encyklopadie of Ersch and Gruber.

Wood was to ask, "if the French originals are found to tally with the Scots translations, will that be reckoned good evidence ?"

This French did not correspond with French copies of some of the originals recently discovered in Cecil's MSS.

Dialogorum de Trinitate libri duo (Hagenau, 1532); two reprints of 1 and 2, to pass for originals; No.

The statues in its niches are modern, but the originals are placed on the exterior of the town hall.

Philo Herennius of Byblus claimed to have translated his mythological writings from the Phoenician originals.

It was only with the advent of the " new learning " in England that a direct rendering from the originals became possible.

Had the copies made of ancient writings been mechanical reproductions of the originals, such as the photographic facsimiles of modern times, there would have been little here for textual criticism to do.

His industry was exemplary and unremitting, and the number of his literary works would be incredible, if the originals, all in his own handwriting, were not still extant.