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   Original , a. [F. original, L. originalis.]
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   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.
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   His form had yet not lost
   All her original brightness.
   Milton.
   
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   Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
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   Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
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   Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
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   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.
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   Sin, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. sünde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.]
    Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
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   Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
   John viii. 34.
   
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   Sin is the transgression of the law.
   1 John iii. 4.
   
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   I think 't no sin.
   To cozen him that would unjustly win.
   Shak.
   
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   Enthralled
   By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.
   Milton.
   
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   An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
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   I grant that poetry's a crying sin.
   Pope.
   
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   A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
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   He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
   2 Cor. v. 21.
   
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   An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
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   Thy ambition,
   Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
   Of noble Buckingham.
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like.
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   Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc. -- Deadly sins, or Mortal sins (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. -- Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. -- Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin.
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   Syn. -- Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.
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