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In"nate (&ibreve;n"n&asl;t or &ibreve;n*nāt"; 277), a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native.] 1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
South.

Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality, innate and written in divine letters.
Fleming (Origen).

If I could only show, as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles.
Locke.

3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray.

Innate ideas(Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

In*nate" (?), v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first innating cause." Marston.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say,
ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to
us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths
of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible
to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it
"a black eye." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in
one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's
country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance
of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's
diseases.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

  • To cause to exit; to call into being.
  • Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  • Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.
  • Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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