▪ I. ingenerate, a.
(ɪnˈdʒɛnərət)
[ad. late L. ingenerātus (Boethius) ‘non generatus, qui per se ipse est’: see in-3 and generate ppl. a.]
Not generated; self-existent.
| 1656 Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 182/1 The Soul is moved by it self, therefore the Soul is Incorruptible, Ingenerate, and Immortal. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §14. 233 Such a God as this, may be..Ingenerate or Vnproduced, and consequently Self-existent. 1833 J. H. Newman Arians ii. iv. (1876) 181. 1894 H. B. Swete Apostles' Creed iii. 35 The first Synod of Sirmium anathematises those who..identify the Holy Ghost with the Ingenerate God. |
▪ II. ingenerate, ppl. a. Now rare.
(ɪnˈdʒɛnərət)
[ad. L. ingenerāt-us, pa. pple. of ingenerāre: see next. In early use also as pa. pple. of next.]
1. Of character, qualities, etc.: Inborn, innate.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. iii. xxiii, In the soules of men is ingenerate a leme of science. 1540–1 ― Image Gov. (1556) 21 b, That gravitie and sternesse, whiche is in you as it were by nature ingenerate. 1581 Mulcaster Positions iv. (1887) 23 We did not force them from their ingenerate heat, and naturall stirring, to an vnnaturall stilnesse. 1612 T. James Jesuits' Downf. 30 The ingenerate law of all men to bee loyall to their Countrey. a 1639 Wotton Educ. in Reliq. (1672) 77 Ingenerate and seminal powers. 1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 290 There is..in every finite part of the world an ingenerate bias from irregularity to regularity. |
b. Of diseases or their causes: Born or developed in the system; congenital. rare.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 333 We meet with a few scattered cases of it [measles] in almost every month of the year, evidently proving an ingenerate origin. Ibid. 482 There are other poisonous irritants which are altogether ingenerate or hereditary. |
† 2. Engendered, begotten (lit. and fig.). rare.
| a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 446 Quhairintill great parrellis may be ingenerat to the commoun-weall and libertie thairof. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 28 From the cursed roote of pestiferous Pride do all other euilles sproute, and thereof are ingenerate. c 1611 Chapman Iliad xviii. 323 She, reigning queen of Goddesses, and being ingenerate Of one stock with himself. |
▪ III. ingenerate, v. Now rare.
(ɪnˈdʒɛnəreɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of L. ingenerāre, f. in- (in-2) generāre to generate.]
trans. To generate within, engender, produce.
| 1528 Fox Let. to Gardiner in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xxvi. 77, I..toke occasion to shew..how these opynyons were ingenerated. 1604 T. Wright Passions ii. i. 55 Inordinate Passions cause and ingenerate in the Soule all those vices which are opposite to prudence. 1674 Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 108 They are the great means whereby all Grace is ingenerated and exercised. 1858 Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. viii. (1864) 240 God shall be able to ingenerate in him a new, divine state, or principle of action. |