Hypertext Webster Gateway: "innate"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Innate \In*nate"\, v. t.
To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] ``The first
innating cause.'' --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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. --South.

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

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. --Locke.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

innate
adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an
unconditioned reflex" [syn: {unconditioned}, {unlearned}]
[ant: {conditioned}]
2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural
leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: {natural},
{born(p)}, {innate(p)}]
3: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired
during fetal development [syn: {congenital}, {inborn}, {inherent}]


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