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▪ I. innate, a.|ˈɪnneɪt, ɪnˈneɪt, ɪˈneɪt|
Also 5 innat.
[ad. late L. innātus (Tertullian), f. in- (in-2) + nātus, pa. pple. of nāscī to be born.]
1. Existing in a person (or organism) from birth; belonging to the original or essential constitution (of body or mind); inborn, native, natural.
a. Of qualities, principles, etc. (esp. mental).
Opposed to acquired, esp. in innate ideas, the nature, character, and even existence of which have been the subject of philosophical dispute, from the times of the Stoics.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2130, I am sure that the bookes alle thre Redde hathe & seen your Innat sapience. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 100 Out of an innate hatred greedily pursuing the incounter. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. iii. §3 (1622) 19 It is innate to all, to owne Their father true, by Nature knowne. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. x. (1676) 17/1 So that in all there be fourteen species of the understanding, of which some are innate..the other are gotten by doctrine, learning, and use. Plato will have all to be innate. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. ii. §1 It is an establish'd Opinion amongst some Men, That there are in the Understanding certain Innate Principles..which the Soul receives in its very first Being, and brings into the World with it. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 4 The commonly received notion of an innate idea of God, imprinted upon every soul of man at their creation. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 3. 16 It is below the..innate Honesty of a true Englishman to enter into a partial Friendship. 1739Hume Hum. Nat. (1874) I. i. i. 316 It has been disputed whether there be any innate ideas, or whether all ideas be derived from sensation and reflexion. 1773Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 252 Notes in birds are no more innate, than language is in man. 1861Mill Utilit. iii. 45 If..the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason, the less natural. 1868Farrar Seekers i. ii. (1875) 27 But eloquence is a gift as innate as the genius from which it springs.
†b. Of inborn material substances or formations. (In quot. 1718 app. misused for ‘internal’ or ‘hidden within’.) Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. ii. (1676) 9/1 A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body..and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite. 1626Bacon Sylva §365 It betrayeth and tolleth forth the Innate and Radicall Moisture. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. Digress. 342 The Pressure of the innate Air in the cavity of the Chest. a1718Penn Maxims Wks. 1726 I. 821 How Nourishment is carried and diffused throughout the Body, by most innate and imperceptible Passages.
c. Of a vegetable formation: Originating within the matrix or the substance of the plant. Of a mineral: Originating within the matrix; native.
1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 391 Phacidium Arctostaphyli. Subgregarious, innate, then erumpent, splitting the epidermis. 1890Nature 6 Feb. 314/1 Diamonds are found in some of the more clayey and pebbly layers, and..they are innate in the rock.
2. transf. Originally or properly existing in the thing spoken of; belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing; inherent. ? Obs.
1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. xxxviii, The wood..Of horrour full, but horrour there innate. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. A vij, This ayres innate and chiefest qualitie. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 106 All Comets in their innate Motion. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 99/1 Of the defects in buildings..some are innate and owing to the Architect. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1470 Has matter innate motion?
3. Bot. Said of a part or organ borne on the apex of another; esp. of an anther that is a direct continuation of the apex of the filament. (Cf. adnate 2.)
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 61 Anthers, erect, innate. 1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. §202 The anther is attached to the filament in various ways: if the filament runs directly without interruption into the base of the connective, it is said to be innate.
▪ II. † innate, v.1 Obs. rare.
[f. prec.]
trans. a. To make innate; to produce or generate within something. b. (In Fuller) To imbue or endow by nature (with something); usually in pass. To be naturally endowed with.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. i. Wks. 1856 I. 117 Wizards..making curious search For natures secrets, the first innating cause. a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 257 They in this County seem innated with a Genius to study Law. Ibid. ii. 279 Thus God hath innated every Country with a Peculiar Genius. Ibid. iv. 4 A person innated with a publike spirit.
▪ III. † iˈnnate, v.2 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. innatāre to swim in or upon, f. in- (in-2) + natāre to swim.]
intr. To swim or float in or upon something.
1670H. Stubbe Plus Ultra 151 It cast a shadow by its innating on the surface of them. |