ab origine

[ ahb oh-rig-i-ne; English ab aw-rij-uh-nee, -oh-rij- ]

adverb

1. Latin. from the very beginning; from the source or origin.

Example Sentences

I do not think that Lancelot was ab origine the hero of a variant of this popular and widely-spread folk-tale.

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It is said of him, that he was, inventum focis, because he was ab origine from the land of fire; by which is meant Ur of Chaldea.

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Nympha vox, Grcorum Νυμφα, non fuit ab origine Virgini sive Puell propria: sed solummodo partem corporis denotabat.

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My constitution and my frame were ab origine blasted with a deep, incurable taint of hypochondria, which poisons my existence.'

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To have been abroad was the next best thing to having been a foreigner ab origine.

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