Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

(label) First in a series or copies/versions.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}

(label) Newly created.

(label) Fresh, different.

(label) Pioneering.

(label) Having as its origin.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Suitable]] or fit to be [[rely on, relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy

A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles. -- .

The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. -- .

According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable , being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs. --.

(signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't