Originate

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ORIGINATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ORIGINATING.] [It. originare, Sp. originar.] To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

The change is to be effected without a decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the elements of society. Burke.

v. i. To take first existence; to have origin; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.