n. [ AS. in, inn, house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in; akin to Icel. inni house. See In. ]
Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
For this same night. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of good conduct and means of payment, as guests for a brief period, not as lodgers or boarders by contract. [ 1913 Webster ]
The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
Inns of chancery (Eng.),
Inns of court (Eng.),
v. i.
v. t.
When he had brought them into his city
And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The internal organs of an animal collectively especially those in the abdominal cavity.
v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [ Obs. ] “The first innating cause.” Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native. ]
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 ]
Innate ideas (Metaph.),
adv. Naturally. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being innate. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Native. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. innavigabilis : cf. F. innavigable. See In- not, and Navigable. ] Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. --