ingenerate

English

Etymology

From Latin ingenerātus.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹeɪt/

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Adjective

ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)

1. (now rare) Innate, inborn.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

   • 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:

     Those virtues were […] rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

Verb

ingenerate (third-person singular simple present ingenerates, present participle ingenerating, simple past and past participle ingenerated)

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 lowlineſſe and abjection

   • 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:

     those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

ingenerate

1. inflection of ingenerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

ingenerate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingenerato

Latin

Verb

ingenerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ingenerō