\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.

\In*nate"\, v. t.
To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] ``The first
innating cause.'' --Marston.