In"gate` (&?;), n. 1. Entrance; ingress. [Obs.]

Which hath in charge the ingate of the year.

Spenser.

2. (Founding) The aperture in a mold for pouring in the metal; the

gate. Simmonds.

In"gath`er*ing (?), n. The act or business of gathering or collecting

anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth;

harvest.

Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering.

Ex. xxii. 16.

In*gel"a*ble (?), a. Not congealable.

In*gem"i*nate (?), a. [L. ingeminatus, p. p.] Redoubled; repeated. Jer.

Taylor.

In*gem"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingeminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.

Ingeminating (?).] [L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double;

pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate.] To redouble or repeat; to

reiterate. Clarendon.

. . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears

relates.

Sandys.

In*gem`i*na"tion (?), n. Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De

Quincey.

That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen.

Featley.

Happiness with an echo or ingemination.

Holdsworth.

||In*ge"na (?), n. (Zoöl.) The gorilla.

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In*gen"der (?), v. t. See Engender.

In*gen`er*a*bil"l*ty (?), n. Incapacity of being engendered or

produced. Cudworth.

In*gen"er*a*ble (?), a. [Pref. in- not + generable: cf. F.

ingenerable.] Incapable of being engendered or produced; original.

Holland.

In*gen"er*a*bly, adv. In an ingenerable manner.

In*gen"er*ate (?), a. [L. ingeneratus, p. p. of ingenerare. See

engender] Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of

body. W. Wotton.

Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true

qualities ingenerate in his judgment.

Bacon.

In*gen"er*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingenerat (?); p. pr. & vb. n.

Ingenerating (?).] To generate or produce within; to beget; to

engender; to occasion; to cause. Mede.

Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.

Sir M. Hale.

In*gen`er*a"tion (?), n. Act of ingenerating.

In*ge"ni*ate (?), v. t. & i. [See Ingenious.] To invent; to contrive.

[Obs.] Daniel.

In"ge*nie (?), n. [Obs.] See Ingeny.

In*ge`ni*os"i*ty (?), n. [LL. ingeniositas.] Ingenuity; skill; cunning.

[Obs.] Cudworth.

In*gen"ious (?), a. [L. ingeniosus, fr. ingenium innate or natural

quality, natural capacity, genius: cf. F. ingénieux. See Engine.] 1.

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to

invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations;

as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.

Hakluyt.

Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious.

Shak.

The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble

themselves.

Sir W. Temple.

2. Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or

ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious

model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.

Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.

Cowper.

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