Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Originate

Originate , transitive verb

[From Origin.]

To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
A decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. — Burke

Originate , intransitive verb

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