ingenerate
English
Etymology
From Latin ingenerātus.
Pronunciation
- (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)
- (now rare) Innate, inborn.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime
That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- Those virtues were […] rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.
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.
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlineſſe and abjection
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
Italian
Verb
ingenerate
- inflection of ingenerare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
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