ingenerate
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Is ingenerate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (now rare) Innate, inborn.Examples: "Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime."; "Those virtues were […]rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature."archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.Examples: "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"transitive
adj (English)
1. (rare) Not generated, self-existent.Examples: "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."; "The first Synod of Sirmium anathematises those who […] identify the Holy Ghost with the Ingenerate God."Antonyms: generate#Adjectivenot-comparablerare
Definition source: Wiktionary