ab origine

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.