ingenerateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested in 1528; borrowed from Latin ingenerātus, perfect passive participle of ingenerō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

形容詞

ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)

1. (now rare) Innate, inborn.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime
     That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.

   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     Those virtues were […] rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

動詞

ingenerate (third-person singular simple present ingenerates, present participle ingenerating, simple past and past participle ingenerated)

1. (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
   • a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon

     ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlineſſe and abjection

   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind

語源 2

First attested in 1656; borrowed from Late Latin ingenerātus, from in- (“not”) +‎ generātus.

形容詞

ingenerate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Not generated, self-existent.

   Antonym: generate

   • 1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[A Summary of Scepticism.] Chap[ter] XVII. Of Time.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Containing the Sceptick Sect), Book II (Of Physick), page 87:

     But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate.

   • 1894, Henry Barclay Swete, “III. 35”, in Apostles's Creed:

     The first Synod of Sirmium anathematises those who […] identify the Holy Ghost with the Ingenerate God.