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.-not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of scripture.-having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.-before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.-origin; commencement; source.-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.-an original thinker or writer; an originator.-a person of marked eccentricity.-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.