Oriflamb
(Or"i*flamb, Or"i*flamme) n. [F. oriflamme, OF. oriflambe, LL. auriflamma; L. aurum gold +
flamma flame; cf. L. flammula a little banner. So called because it was a flag of red silk, split into many
points, and borne on a gilded lance.]
1. The ancient royal standard of France.
2. A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow.
And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Macaulay. Origan
(Or"i*gan ||O*rig"a*num) n. [L. origanum, Gr. prob. fr. 'o`ros, mountain + brightness, beauty.
Cf. Organy.] (Bot.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana)
and the wild marjoram Spenser.
Origenism
(Or"i*gen*ism) n. (Eccl. Hist.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d
century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that
all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.
Origenist
(Or"i*gen*ist), n. A follower of Origen of Alexandria.
Origin
(Or"i*gin) 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.]
1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.
Burke. 2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; — in contradistinction
to insertion.
Origin of coördinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
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.
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.
Famous Greece,
That source of art and cultivated thought
Which they to Rome, and Romans hither,
brought.
Waller.
