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<p><b>3.</b> <def>Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; <as>as, an <ex>ingenious</ex> reply</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Mental; intellectual.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A course of learning and <b>ingenious</b> studies. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ingeniously</h1> <Xpage=762>

<hw>In*gen"ious*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly.</def>

<blockquote>"Too <b>ingeniously</b> politic." <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ingeniousness</h1> <Xpage=762>

<hw>In*gen"ious*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.</def>

<h1>Ingenite Ingenit</h1> <Xpage=762>

<hw><hw>In*gen"ite In*gen"it</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ingenitus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>ingignere</ets> to instill by birthor nature; pref. <ets>in-</ets> + <ets>gignere</ets> to beget.]</ety> <def>Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>It is naturalor <b>ingenite</b>, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. <i>Burton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ingenuity</h1> <Xpage=762>

<hw>In`ge*nu"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ingenuitas</ets> ingenuousness: cf. F. <ets>ing\'82nuit\'82</ets>. See <er>Ingenuous</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.</def>

<blockquote>All the means which human <b>ingenuity</b> has contrived. <i>Blair.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; <as>as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He gives . . . To artist <b>ingenuity</b> and skill. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Openness of heat; ingeniuousness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The stings and remores of natural <b>ingenuity</b>, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning; cleverness; genius.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Ingenuity</er>, <er>Cleverness</er>. <i>Ingenuity</i> is a form of genius, and <i>cleverness</i> of talent. The former implies invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks that the English overdo in the use of the word <i>clever</i> and <i>cleverness</i>, applying them loosely to almost every form of intellectual ability.</usage>

<h1>Ingenuous</h1> <Xpage=762>

<hw>In*gen"u*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ingenuus</ets> inborn, innate, freeborn, noble, frank; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + the root of <ets>gignere</ets> to beget. See <er>Genius</er>, and cf. <er>Ingenious</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; <as>as, <ex>ingenuous</ex> blood of birth</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; uprigth; high-minded; <as>as, an <ex>ingenuous</ex> ardor or zeal</as>.</def>

<blockquote>If an <b>ingenuous</b> detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; sa, an <i>ingenuous</i> man; an <i>ingenuous</i> declaration, confession, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be <b>ingenuous</b>, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Ingenious.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<note>&hand; (Formerly) printers did not discriminate between . . . <i>ingenuous</i> and <i>ingenious</i>, and these words were used or rather printed interchangeably almost to the begining of the eighteenth century.</note>