a. and sb. [UN-1 7, 12, 5 b.] = next.
1719. J. Jackson, Lett. to Auth. True Doctr. Trinity, 216. Self-existent being the same as unoriginate, is (you think) merely a Negative Character.
1755. Amory, Mem. (1769), 183. One spirit possessed of all possible perfections, self-existent, unoriginate, the first cause of the universe.
1855. Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, 236. For God is unoriginate, and not generate.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., ii. 53. A supreme all-producing Cause, Itself uncaused, unoriginate.
b. As sb. An unoriginated being.
1724. Waterland, Athan. Creed, 145. That … neither the Son nor Holy Ghost have any share in these Titles or Characters, to make Three Unoriginates.
1875. Encycl. Brit., II. 537/2. Arius denied of Christ that He was … part of the Unoriginate.
Hence Unoriginately adv., -ness.
1720. Waterland, Eight Serm., Prof. It is only saying that he is so emphatically, or unoriginately. Ibid. (1723), Second Vind., 125. It was to admit of a higher and a lower Sense of the Word God; the higher supposed to have nothing above the other but Self-existence, or Unoriginateness.
