In*gen"er*ate (?), a. [L. ingeneratus, p. p. of ingenerare. See engender]

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body.

W. Wotton.

Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

 

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In*gen"er*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingenerat (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ingenerating (?).]

To generate or produce within; to begete; to engener; to occasion; to cause.

Mede.

Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. Sir M. Hale.

 

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