Innate vs Ingate - What's the difference?
innate | ingate |
Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
* South
* John Locke
(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
(obsolete) entrance; ingress
(obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.
As an adjective innate
is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.As a verb innate
is to cause to exist; to call into being.As a noun ingate is
entrance; ingress.innate
English
Adjective
(-)- There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
- how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
- (Gray)
Usage notes
* Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* innatenessVerb
References
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* ----ingate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. — Spenser.
- (Simmonds)