a. [ See Aborigines. ] 1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. “Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindu of aboriginal blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An animal or a plant native to the region. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Primarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ L. Aborigines; ab + origo, especially the first inhabitants of Latium, those who originally (ab origine) inhabited Latium or Italy. See Origin. ] 1. The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The original fauna and flora of a geographical area [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Submissive to correction; docile. “Bending down his corrigible neck.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having power to correct; corrective. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dirigere to direct. ] The practice or inclination to direct (activities) by a central authority; as, the linguistic dirigisme of prescriptivists clashes with the modern tendency toward acceptance of multiculturalism. See also dirigiste. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. dirigere to direct. ] Directed by a central authority; as, a dirigiste economy; with respect to economics, opposed to free-market. See also dirigisme. [ PJC ]

a. [ See Erect. ] Capable of being erected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. &unr_; to shudder, or perh. to &unr_; cold. Cf. Frill. ] 1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23&unr_; 28&unr_; from the pole. See the Note under Arctic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Frigidaria [ L., neut. of frigidarium cooling. ] The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. frigiditas: cf. F. frigidité. ] 1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

n. [ Cf. F. incorrigibilité. ] The state or quality of being incorrigible. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorrigibilis: cf. F. incorrigible. See In- not, and Corrigible. ] Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. “Incorrigible fools.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is incorrigible; a person whose persistent bad behavior cannot be changed; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles; incorrigible and disruptive children need to be placed in a separate classroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incorrigible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. infrigidatus, p. p. of infrigidare to chill. See 1st In-, and Frigid. ] To chill; to make cold; to cool. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infrigidatio. ] The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Aeronautics) Not rigid; especially, designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure. Opposite of rigid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. &rsdot_;, and perh. to E. run. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Origin of coordinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain; derivation; cause; root; foundation. -- Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or commencement of a thing; source presents itself under the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is the source of most of the calamities of our race. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Famous Greece,
That source of art and cultivated thought
Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being originated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. original, L. originalis. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. [ 1913 Webster ]

His form had yet not lost
All her original brightness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. original. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Origin; commencement; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

It hath it original from much grief. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person of marked eccentricity. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is original. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. originalité. ] 1. The quality or state of being original. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ability to create new and original ideas, works of art, theories, etc.; ability to express oneself in an original manner; creativity; -- of people. [ PJC ]

adv. 1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. “Originally a half length [ portrait ].” Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being original; originality. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Originating; original. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. originarius: cf. F. originaire. ] 1. Causing existence; productive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Primitive; primary; original. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. originatio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. “The origination of the universe.” Keill. [ 1913 Webster ]

What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. [ 1913 Webster ]

This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who originates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too rigid; too severe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pruriginosus: cf. F. prurigineux. ] (Med.) Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb: cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ] 1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidité. See Rigid. ] 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Severity; rigor. [ Obs. orR. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. In a rigid manner; stiffly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being rigid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Dim. from rigid. ] (Bot.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scaturiginosus, fr. scaturigo gushing water. See Scaturient. ] Abounding with springs. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beginning with, or springing from, one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]