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ab origine
[ ahb oh-rig-i-ne; English ab aw-rij-uh-nee, -oh-rij- ]
adverb
- Latin. from the very beginning; from the source or origin.
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Example Sentences
I do not think that Lancelot was ab origine the hero of a variant of this popular and widely-spread folk-tale.
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.
Nympha vox, Grcorum Νυμφα, non fuit ab origine Virgini sive Puell propria: sed solummodo partem corporis denotabat.
My constitution and my frame were ab origine blasted with a deep, incurable taint of hypochondria, which poisons my existence.'
To have been abroad was the next best thing to having been a foreigner ab origine.
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