{ } n. pl. [ See Ann. ] (Eccl. Law) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [ Obs. ] “The first innating cause.” Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Naturally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being innate. [ 1913 Webster ]