The great originator and teacher in these matters is Nature, who prompts us to imitate and to assign words by which things are pictured, in virtue of certain resemblances which are founded in reason and appeal to our intelligence.
In the Philebus 18 D the originator of an ‘art of grammar’ is attributed to the Egyptian Theuth.
Beautiful it is to understand and know that a Thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole Past, so thou wilt transmit it to the whole Future.
And this is the more remarkable because there are few other cases where a master-originator in science has come upon the scene except as the pupil or friend of some other master-originator.
And so we can little doubt that a century from now one name will be mentioned as that of the originator of the great doctrine of the conservation of energy.
To Hooke's contemporary, Huygens, who was the originator of the general doctrine of undulation as the explanation of light, Young renders full justice also.
In the field of forest management he became the inventor of the area allotment method and the originator of the highly developed Saxon forest management.
The statue of Ganymede at the side of Zeus was a perpetual reminder to the youth of Athens of the originator of the loathsome custom of paiderastia.
Conceiving himself slighted by those in authority at Louisburg, he went from thence directly to England, in order to prefer his claim for compensation as the originator of the scheme.
Single handed he attacked the whole family of the man who had been the originator of the quarrel.
Whitty, was the originator of that interesting feature of English and Irish journalism, the sketch of personalities and proceedings in parliament.
Xenophanes is considered as the originator of the Eleatic tendency.
To help out with this difficulty the cosmological proof is brought in, and the originatorof the form becomes conceived as the necessary being lying at the ground of the content.
Wallace, the independent and contemporaneous co-originator of the Darwinian theory, still more evidently and more decidedly expresses himself favorably as to the position of this theory in reference to religion.
Maurice had no doubt that whatever motive had actuated the originator of the bold plan to possess himself of twenty-five million francs, he had deliberately set to work to employ men of that type to help him in his task.
It was a Bonapartist plot, of that he felt sure, as well as of the fact that Victor de Marmont was the originator of it all.
A work of the highest standing, and a reference to which is the first act of historical writers, has recorded James Chalmers as having been the originator of that adhesive postage stamp which saved the reformed scheme.
This was the spirit in which the originatorof the adhesive stamp ever tendered his services, public or private--the satisfaction of finding them useful and accepted.
Surely the man who rescued the Legislature from such a complication as has been described, surely the originator of this indispensable and ubiquitous adhesive stamp has done the State some service.
Mr. Roberts is there recognised as the pioneer of postal reform andoriginator of the proposal of a low and uniform postage.
It is enough for me that my father's memory as the originator and inventor of the adhesive postage stamp has been successfully vindicated.
And on this principle acts done from anger are fairly judged not to be from malice prepense, because it is not the man who acts in wrath who is the originator really but he who caused his wrath.
Reason ought to be the originator in all cases, as Bishop Butler observes that Conscience should be.
Or must we dispute the statements lately made, and not say that Man is the originator or generator of his actions as much as of his children?
A well-known beverage, so named after itsoriginator and patron, Colonel Negus.
Magnes-Lahens[218] describes below a process for the clarification of syrups, the originator of which was M.
Had she not been most seriously offended with me when her father intentionally gave her to believe that I was the originator of the project?
Why, when he knew how averse she was from the project, mention me to her as its originator or at all events its chief promoter?
Charles Darwin was not the originator of the theory of evolution, nor even the first to advocate it in modern times.
It may seem surprising to some that we should class De Vries as a Neo-Darwinian, seeing that he is the originator of the theory of evolution by means of mutations, which we shall discuss in Chapter III.
Mrs. Elmer caused Mark to blush furiously by speaking of him in the most flattering terms as the originator of the scheme, and nominating him as president of the company.
He was fifteen years old, the leader of the Norton boys in all their games, and the originator of most of their schemes for mischief.
It is not supposed, however, that Piso was absolutely the originator of the conspiracy, nor is it known, in fact, who the originator of it was.
Nagarjuna was the originatorof the Middle Path, so named because it strove to define a middle ground between affirmation of the world and complete negation of existence.
He died ‘sine crux et sine lux’”; here again Luther says he had been the cause of many losing body and soul and had been the originator of the Sacramentarians.
Lutherans as well as Catholics, prove conclusively that the originator of the new matrimonial theories was the last man qualified to reproach the ancient Church with a want of appreciation for marriage or for woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "originator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
