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English Dictionary: innate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
innate adj not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" Synonym(s): unconditioned, innate, unlearned Antonym(s): conditioned, learned being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" Synonym(s): natural, born(p), innate(p) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development Synonym(s): congenital, inborn, innate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Innate \In*nate"\, v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] [bd]The first innating cause.[b8] --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.