Definition of "originary" []

• Of, pertaining to or causing the origin of something (adjective)
• Primitive, original (adjective)

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• "Such a repression, then, can with good reason be called 'originary'."
• "The deconstructive approach to literature was marked by a number of signature traits: an aloofness from cause-effect relations, "originary" historical factors, and determinate "intended meanings"; a denial that literature is "about" anything besides reading and writing; a concentration on destabilizing, infinitely regressive linguistic effects; a ponderous coyness about the critic's own immersion in the swirling current of interpretation; a blurring of the line between a given author's metaphors and the critic's own; a dense opacity of style, whereby vague abstractions conjoined to perform a slowly circling Dance of the Elephants; and explicit obeisance to certain prized authorities such as Derrida, Lacan, and de Man, along with the forefathers Nietzsche and Heidegger."
• "a kind of originary explosion that simultaneously produces matter as passively receptive to form and keeps any form, even the quasi-eternal "heaven of heavens," from being truly eternal and unchanging (since the "heaven of heavens" has, after all, undergone the greatest change of all: that from non-existence to existence)."