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That is why it is imperative to use the original title.

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im·per·a·tive

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Expressing a command or plea; peremptory: requests that grew more and more imperative.
Having the power or authority to command or control.
Grammar. Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.
Impossible to deter or evade; pressing: imperative needs. See Synonyms at urgent.

1. A command; an order.
2. An obligation; a duty: social imperatives.
A rule, principle, or instinct that compels a certain behavior: a people driven to aggression by territorial imperatives.
Grammar.
1. The imperative mood.
2. A verb form of the imperative mood.

[Middle English imperatif, relating to the imperative mood, from Old French, from Late Latin impertvus, from Latin impertus, past participle of imperre, to command. See emperor.]

im·pera·tive·ly adv.
im·pera·tive·ness n.

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imperative

\Im*per"a*tive\, a. [L. imperativus, fr. imperare to command; pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. imp['e]ratif. See Perade, and cf. Empire.] 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

The suit of kings are imperative. --Bp. Hall.

2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

3. (Gram.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

imperative

\Im*per"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

imperative

adj 1: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" [ant: beseeching] 2: (grammar) relating to verbs in the imperative mood n 1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior [syn: imperative mood, jussive mood] 2: some duty that is essential and urgent

1. I reject your premises.
2. Just for the sake of argument, I accept your premises.

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o·rig·i·nal

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Preceding all others in time; first.
1. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual: an original play, not an adaptation.
2. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new: a truly original approach. See Synonyms at new.
Productive of new things or new ideas; inventive: an original mind.
Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.

A first form from which other forms are made or developed: Later models of the car retained many features of the original.
1. An authentic work of art: bought an original, not a print.
2. Work that has been composed firsthand: kept the original but sent a photocopy to his publisher.
A person who is appealingly odd or curious; a character.
Archaic. The source from which something arises; an originator.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin orginlis, from org, orgin-, source. See origin.]

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\O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.] 1. Origin; commencement; source.

It hath it original from much grief. --Shak.

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. --Addison.

2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. --Milton.

3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]

Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. --C. G. Leland.

4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]

5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

original

\O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.] 1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. --Milton.

original

adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" 2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal] 4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" n 1: an original (audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy] 2: an original model on which something is patterned [syn: archetype, pilot]

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