ingenerate

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Adjective, Verb (transitive)

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in=gen=er=ate

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ingenerate, a. [L. ingeneratus, p. p. of ingenerare. See engender].

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. [1913 Webster]

"Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment." [1913 Webster]

ingenerate, v. t.

To generate or produce within; to beget; to engender; to occasion; to cause. Mede. [1913 Webster]

"Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul." [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

ingenerate

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.