Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Ingenerate

In-gen′er-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
ingeneratus
, p. p. of
ingenerare
. See engender]
Generated within; inborn; innate;
as,
ingenerate
powers of body
.
W. Wotton.
Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities
ingenerate
in his judgment.
Bacon.

In-gen′er-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ingenerat
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Ingenerating
.]
To generate or produce within; to beget; to engender; to occasion; to cause.
Mede.
Those noble habits are
ingenerated
in the soul.
Sir M. Hale.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ingenerate

INGEN'ERATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. ingenero; in and genero, to generate.]
To generate or produce within.

INGEN'ERATE

,
Adj.
Generated within; inborn; innate; inbred; as ingenerate powers of body.

Definition 2024


ingenerate

ingenerate

English

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.
    • Francis Bacon
      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)

  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?)
    • Sir M. Hale
      Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.

Italian

Verb

ingenerate

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

Latin

Verb

ingenerāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ingenerō