Ingenerate

//ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət// adj, verb

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Definitions

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

    "a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlinee and abjection"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Innate, inborn. archaic

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

  2. 2
    Not generated, self-existent. not-comparable, rare

    "But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate."

Synonyms

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lead to

Example

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1528; borrowed from Latin ingenerātus, perfect passive participle of ingenerō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Etymology 2

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Late Latin ingenerātus, from in- (“not”) + generātus.

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