释义 |
iˈnnative, a. Now rare or Obs. [f. innate + -ive, after native.] Innate; native.
1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 97 Beside his innative polecy, Humanite, curaige, fredome and chevalry. [comm.] Innative is als mekil to say as inborn, or that quhilk cumis till ony person be thar natural inclinatioun of kynd, throw thar forbearis. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 243 An art so natural and innative to them. 1657Lust's Domin. iv. i. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 149 All that love, Which by innative duty I did owe her. 1868Lowell Willows (1869) 263 Some innative weakness there must be. |