innateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈneɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

形容詞

innate (not comparable)

1. Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:innate

2. (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.

   innate ideas

   • 1691 November 1, Robert South, “An Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume II, Oxford: UP, published 1842, page 29:

     There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty, in the common notions of good and evil, which, by cultivation and improvement, may be advanced to higher and brighter discoveries.

   • 1690, John Locke, “No innate Principles in the Mind”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, book I, page 4:

     It would be ſufficient to convince unprejudiced Readers of the falſeneſs of this Suppoſition, if I ſhould only ſhew (as I hope I ſhall in the following Parts of this Diſcourſe) how Men barely by the Uſe of their natural Faculties, may attain to all the Knowledge that they have, without the help of any innate Impreſſions […]

3. Instinctive; coming from instinct.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 198:

     Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     As if she held the clue to something secret in his breast, of the nature of which he was hardly informed himself. As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.

4. (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

   an innate anther

派生語

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Collocations

参考

• a priori
• intuitive.

動詞

innate (三人称単数 現在形 innates, 現在分詞 innating, 過去形および過去分詞形 innated)

1. (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.
   • 1601, John Marston, “Antonio’s Revenge”, in Tragedies and Comedies Collected into One Volume, London: A.M., published 1633, [Act IIII, scene i]:

     I never ſaw a foole leane : the chub-fac’d fop / Shines ſleek with full cramm’d fat of happineſſe, / VVhilſt ſtudious contemplation ſucks the juice / From wiſards cheekes : who making curious ſearch / For Natures ſecrets, the firſt innating cauſe / Laughs them to ſcorne, as man doth buſy Apes / VVhen they will zany men.

   • 1655, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, “Of the dull and innated matter”, in The Philosophical and Physical Opinions, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, page 46:

     […] but the innating matter works not upon the dull matter, as upon a new material, for the innate matter is mixt with the dull part of matter […]

   • a. 1661, Thomas Fuller, chapter XIX, in Anglorum Speculum, or The Worthies of England, London: John Wright, Thomas Passinger, and William Thackary, published 1684, page 20:

     Here you may behold how each County is innated with a particular Genius, inclining the Natives thereof to be dextrous, ſome in one profeſſion, ſome in another […]

参照

• innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “innate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• annite, ante in, nanite, tannie

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈnaː.te/, [ɪnˈnäːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈna.te/, [inˈnäːt̪e]

Participle

innāte

1. vocative masculine singular of innātus