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Innate \In*nate"\, v. t.
To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first
innating cause." --Marston.
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Innate \In"nate\ ([i^]n"n[asl]t or [i^]n*n[=a]t"; 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.
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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}.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament;
as, an innate anther. --Gray.
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{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.
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