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The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the…

To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

the remote object, but sometimes with to. Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. Burke. He was designed to the study of the law. Dryden.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

ng possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest. Hammond.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

ident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.

on, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

ted into the two forms then and than. Earle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification. Dr. Murray.

tably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

ineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact s…