O*rig`i*na"tion (?), n. [L. originatio.]
1.
The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
"The
origination of the universe."
Keill.
What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination.
Hickok.
2.
Mode of production, or bringing into being.
This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars.
Ray.
© Webster 1913.