ingenerate
English
Etymology
From Latin ingenerātus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/
Adjective
ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)
- (now rare) Innate, inborn.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
- Francis Bacon
- Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
Verb
ingenerate (third-person singular simple present ingenerates, present participle ingenerating, simple past and past participle ingenerated)
- (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mede to this entry?)
- Sir M. Hale
- Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
Italian
Verb
ingenerate
- second-person plural present indicative of ingenerare
- second-person plural imperative of ingenerare
- feminine plural of ingenerato
Latin
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