innate

[In·nate]

If a characteristic or ability is already present in a person or animal when they are born, it is innate. People have the innate ability to speak whereas animals do not.

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Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

Adjective S.
present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development

Adjective
not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"


a.
Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

a.
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

a.
Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

v. t.
To cause to exit; to call into being.


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.
Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters.
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.
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.

Innate

In*nate" , v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first innating cause." Marston.

Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

To cause to exit; to call into being.

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Usage Examples

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

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Other Usage Examples

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

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