innate

innate
    adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an
           unconditioned reflex" [syn: {unconditioned}, {innate},
           {unlearned}] [ant: {conditioned}, {learned}]
    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},
       {innate}]
    

Innate \In*nate"\, v. t.
   To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first
   innating cause." --Marston.
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Innate \In"nate\ ([i^]n"n[asl]t or [i^]n*n[=a]t"; 277), 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.
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   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}.
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            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.
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            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).
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            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.
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   3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament;
      as, an innate anther. --Gray.
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   {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.
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INNATE, adj.  Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say,
ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to
us.  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths
of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible
to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it
"a black eye."  Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in
one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's
country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance
of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's
diseases.
    

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      connate, connatural, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental,
      essential, genetic, genic, hereditary, impulsive, in the blood,
      inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, ingrained, inherent,
      inherited, instinctive, instinctual, intrinsic, involuntary,
      libidinal, matroclinous, native, native to, natural, natural to,
      normal, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, primal,
      regular, spontaneous, standard, subliminal, temperamental, typical,
      unacquired, unconscious, unlearned