ingenerate

English

Etymology

From Latin ingenerātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/

Adjective

ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)

1. (now rare) Innate, inborn.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.

   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

Verb

1. (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Mede to this entry?)

   • (Can we date this quote by Sir M. Hale and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.

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Italian

Verb

ingenerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ingenerare
2. second-person plural imperative of ingenerare
3. feminine plural of ingenerato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ingenerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ingenerō