originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The creative power often confers no clearness of vision on its possessor; the best critics are seldom originative men.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Nor, in the second place, is the gold coin originative of the svastika-ornament; for we do not perceive the coin in the svastika, as we do perceive the threads in the cloth.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

The second was in no sense originative, mankind being occupied, quietly and industriously, in making themselves comfortable in the pleasant hush after the secular rattle of spear and shield.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

I am directly or indirectly related as Will, as an originative cause of activity, with a larger portion of my organism, many parts of which are quite distinct from the cognitive portion.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander