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ingenerate en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) Innate, inborn.
   • Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • Those virtues were […]rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature. 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

Forms

ingenerate en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹeɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
   • a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlinee and abjection
   • those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

Forms

ingenerate en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Not generated, self-existent.
   • 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. 1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[A Summary of Scepticism.] Chap[ter] XVII. Of Time.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Containing the Sceptick Sect), Book II (Of Physick), page 87:
   • The first Synod of Sirmium anathematises those who […] identify the Holy Ghost with the Ingenerate God. 1894, Henry Barclay Swete, “III. 35”, in Apostles's Creed:

Antonyms

generate