4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Innate \In*nate"\, v. t.
To cause to exit to call into being [Obs.] ``The first
innating cause.'' --Marston.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Innate \In"nate\, 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.
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}.
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.
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).
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.
3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament;
as an innate anther. --Gray.
{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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
innate
adj 1: being so through innate qualities; "a natural leader"; "a
born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: {born(a)}, {innate(a)}]
2: not established by conditioning or learning; "an
unconditioned reflex" [syn: {unconditioned}, {unlearned}]
[ant: {conditioned}]
3: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired
during fetal development [syn: {congenital}, {inborn}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INNATE, adj Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say
ideas that we are born with having had them previously imparted to
us The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths
of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible
to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it
"a black eye." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in
one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's
country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance
of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's
diseases.
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