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<hw>In"most`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>innemest</ets>, AS. <ets>innemest</ets>, a double superlative form fr. <ets>inne</ets> within, fr. <ets>in</ets> in. The modern form is due to confusion with <ets>most</ets>. See <er>In</er>, and cf. <er>Aftermost</er>, <er>Foremost</er>, <er>Innermost</er>.]</ety> <def>Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.</def>

<blockquote>And pierce the <b>inmost</b> center of the earth. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my <b>inmost</b> vitals prey. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Inn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>in</ets>,<ets>inn</ets>, house, chamber, inn, from AS. <ets>in</ets> in; akin to Icel. <ets>inni</ets> house. See <er>In</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Therefore with me ye may take up your <b>inn</b> For this same night. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.</def>

<note>&hand; 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.</note>

<blockquote>The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial <b>inn</b>. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; <as>as, Leicester <ex>Inn</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; <as>as, the <ex>Inns</ex> of Court; the <ex>Inns</ex> of Chancery; Serjeants' <ex>Inns</ex>.</as></def>

<cs><col>Inns of chancery</col> <fld>(Eng.)</fld>, <cd>colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, etc.</cd> -- <col>Inns of court</col> <fld>(Eng.)</fld>, <cd>the four societies of "students and practicers of the law of England" which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Inn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Inned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Inning</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To take lodging; to lodge.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Addison.</i>

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<hw>Inn</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To house; to lodge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>When he had brought them into his city And <b>inned</b> them, everich at his degree. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To get in; to in. See <er>In</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>

<h1>Innate</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>innatus</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>natus</ets> born, p.p. of <ets>nasci</ets> to be born. See <er>Native</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Inborn; native; natural; <as>as, <ex>innate</ex> vigor; <ex>innate</ex> eloquence.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; <as>as, <ex>innate</ex> ideas</as>. See <er>A priori</er>, <er>Intuitive</er>.</def>

<blockquote>There is an <b>innate</b> light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,<b>innate</b> and written in divine letters. <i>Fleming (Origen).</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>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 <b>innate</b> impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>