Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing or implanted at birth; connate; congenital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Congenital; connate; inborn. See
congenital .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
congenital
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Examples
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The sense in which they are innate differs from adventitious and fictitious ideas; innate ideas do not proceed from the senses or the imagination but "are congenite and inbred with the said mind, from their original." (1694, p. 328) By this Le Grand meant that the mind or thought itself, not any of its faculties such as sense or intellection, is the principle or original of such ideas.
Antoine Le Grand Easton, Patricia 2006
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The Iraqis who seethe over the shooting of Kurilla know that the cunning fury of Jihadists is congenite.
Michael Yon - Online Magazine Michael Yon 2010
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The Iraqis who seethe over the shooting of Kurilla know that the cunning fury of Jihadists is congenite.
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Benefici della diagnosi prenatale della cardiopatie congenite (CC) a cura di S. Gerboni La diagnosi prenatale delle malformazioni congenite e'entrata nella pratica clinica ostetrica in modo routinario.
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L'aneurisma e il diverticolo isolato del ventricolo destro sono rare anomalie congenite il cui riscontro prenatale e 'eccezionalmente insolito.
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(whatsoever is sinful is also voluntary) only to sinful actions; but it may be also true of sinful habits, which, though congenite with our natures, may be yet said to be free and voluntary.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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