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ingenerate

adjective as in born

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Ingenerate, in-jen′ėr-āt, v.t. to generate or produce within.—adj. inborn: innate.

Her birth was of the womb of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous prime, And all her whole creation did her show Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.

Before them on an altar he presented Both fire and water, which was first invented,360 Since to ingenerate every human creature And every other birth produc'd by Nature, Moisture and heat must mix; so man and wife For human race must join in nuptial life.

Nor ever had there been a woman born more elaborately equipped for the position of a public man's mate; nor more ingenerate, perhaps, with the power to turn earth into heaven.

Nameless specters peered at him from every shadow, ingenerate familiars of his wild, forgotten blood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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