ingeniousness 
3f. Ingenuousness; candor. 
Tlie greater appearance of ingeniausness, as well as in- 
nocence, there is in the practice I am disapproving, the 
more dangerous it is. Boyle, Works, II. 444. 
ingenitet (in-jen'it), a. [== Sp. ingenito = Pg. 
It. ingenito, < L. ingenitus, inborn, pp. of ingig- 
nere (OL. ingenere), ingenerate, implant, < in, 
in, + gignere (OL S generc), produce, generate, 
born: see genus. Cf. ingenuous.] 
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That finest color In nature, according to the ancient 
Greek, the blush of an ingenuous youth. 
Sumner, Orations, I. 169. 
Elaborate sculptures, full of ingenuous intention and of 
the reality of early faith, are in a remarkable state of pre- 
servation. B. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 79. 
4f. Same as ingenious. 
Let us spend ... all our desires and stratagems, all our 
witty and ingenuous faculties, . . . towards the arriving 
thither. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, ii. 4. 
. 3. Frank, Naive, etc. (see candid); unreserved, art- 
>p. genitus, 
mate; inborn; native; ingenerate. __-.- ^ htforward truthful 
ch comes by some drfect of ingenuOUS?yVn-Jeu'u-us-ii), a(lv - In an ingen- 
uous manner ; frankly; openly; candidly, 
ingenuousness (in-jen'u-us-nes), . 1. The 
character of being ingenuous; openness of 
heart; frankness; candor. 
In Petrarch's [sonnets] all ingenuousness is frittered 
away into ingenuity. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 369. 
So what you impart 
Comes not from others principles, or art, 
But is ingenite all, and still your owne. 
Cartwriykt, Poems (1651). 
Since their ingenite gravity remains, 
What girder binds, what prop the frame sustains? 
Sir R. Blackmore, Creation, iv. 
ingeniuni (in-je'ni-um), n. 
nius: see ingenious, engine.] 
mind; innate talent. [Rare.] 
[L., ability, ge- 2f. Same as ingenuity, 2. 
Bent or turn of Byhis'n3jmoMjm*8he[thegoodhandicraftBman]leaves 
his art better than he found it. Fuller, Holy State, ii. 19. 
It [a poem] will serve to show something of Jan's youth- ingenyt, . [< L. ingenium, innate or natural 
\lingenium. Oeo. MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 96. quality, genius : seeingene, ingine, engine.] Wit; 
f ul ing: 
ingenue (an-zha-nii'), n. [F., fern, of inginu, < 
L. ingenitus, ingenuous: see ingenuous.] An 
ingenuous, artless girl or young woman; a 
woman or girl who displays innocent candor 
or simplicity; specifically, such a character 
represented on the stage, or the actress who 
plays it. 
Was this lady more or less of a woman of the world than 
he had imagined? Was there not after all something of 
ingenuity; genius. 
According to the nature, ingeny, and property of Satan, 
which is a liar, and the father of all lying. 
Becon, Works, p. 277. 
Sir I receive your son, and will wind up his ingeny, fear 
it not. Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5. 
-jer'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ingered, ppr. 
[Also ingire, injeer; < F. ingerer = Sp. 
' e, thrust in, refl. thrust 
ingenng. 
viiere nut alter uu Muiii'iniuf; \ji &' . _ "_- . T . 
the ingenue about her? To be sure, a widow cannot, as a oneselt in, meddle, < La wgererc, carry or put 
in: see ingest.] To thrust in or introduce by 
indirect means; insinuate. [Scotch.] 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 67. 
He must be entreated ... to permit us more of beauty 
and of charm than is vouchsafed by the scanty utterances 
of the ingenue of the present play. 
general thing, be accurately described as an ingenue; but, 
practically, this widow might be so. 
To 
The Academy, April 6, 1889, p. 245. 
ingire hymself to Latyne King. 
damn Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 316. 
This is a shaft out of the heretic's quiver a stratagem 
from first to last, to injeer into your confidence some es- 
pial of his own. Scott, Abbot, xvii. 
ingenuity (in-je-nu'i-ti), . [= F. iMjtnuite = i n g e rminate (in-jer'mi-nat), i: t. ; pret. and 
Sp. ingenuidad = Pg. wgenmdade = It. mge- r>r>. ingeminated, T,m.ingerminating. [< in-* + 
nuita, ingenuity, cleverness, < L. mgenmta(t-)s, t)ermina t e .] To cause to germinate or sprout. 
the condition or character of a free-born man, \ or fl t British Her. 
frankness, < ingenuus, native, free-born: see in- ingegt (i n .j e st'), v. t. [< L. iiigestiis, pp. of in- 
genuous. The senses are m part (2, 6) depen- ( . erere carry , pu t pour, or throw into or upon, 
dent on the related adjective ingenious.] If. < ,-,, L + gerere, carry: see gesft.] To put, 
Ingenuousness; frankness; openness of heart. bring; or throw in: use( j e hi e 'fly of the intro- 
He had found upon Oath such a Clearness of Ingenuity 
in the Duke of Buckingham that satisfied him of his In 
nocency. Howell, Letters, I. iii. 29. 
See the ingenuity of Truth, who, when she gets a free 
and willing hand, opens herself faster than the pace of 
method and discours can overtake her. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 22. 
duction of substances, as food, into the body. 
Some the long funnel's curious mouth extend, 
Through which ingested meats with ease descend. 
Blackmore. 
It may be premised that the fate which befalls a given 
xample of ingested food does not depend solely upon the 
True faith is full of ingenuity and hearty simplicity, 
free from suspicion, wise and confident. \^ nna t-n r \ 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, iv. 1. mgesta (m-J 
2. The quality of being ingenious ; inventive 
capacity or faculty; aptness in contrivance 
theoretical power of the digestive juices to act upon it. 
Kncyc. Brit., XVII. 676. 
a), n. pi. [L., neut. pi. of in- 
gestus, pp. of ingerere, carry or put in : see tii- 
gest.] Substances introduced into an organic 
body, especially through the alimentary pas- 
) - 
or combination, as of things or ideas; skill; g '. hence, any things put or taken in and in- 
P.lfivArrmsa: a.s. fcuMuiiAi disnlavprt in the con- co ?porated, as into the mind : opposed to egesta. 
cleverness: as, ingenuity displayed in the con 
struction of machines, or of arguments or 
plots. 
I think their greatest ingenuity [that of the Achinese] 
is in building their Flying Proes ; which are made very 
smooth, kept neat and clean, and will sail very well. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. i 127. 
I do not know what can occur to one more monstrous 
Objects are taken up from without into the interior of 
the growing and moving plasmodiuni, one may say engulf- 
ed by it, ... and they may be provisionally termed the 
solid mgesta. De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 425. 
For the time being, the bulk of the ingesta must be de- 
termined by the existing capacity. 
H. Spencer, Education, p. 244. 
than to see persons of ingenuity address their services j n g es tion (iu-ies'chon), . [= F.-ingestion = 
and performances to men no way addicted to liberal arts. Q B ""% TJ ";,< ,* / TT 
steele, Spectator, No. 188. 8 P- 0e*<o = Pg. tngestSo, mgestion, < LL. 
ingestio(n-), an uttering, < ingerere, pp. inges- 
There is no limit to the ingenuity of a lover in framing 
excuses for the actions of the person beloved. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xli. 
PP Tb 
tits, carry or pour in: see ingest.] The act 
of throwing, putting, or taking in, as into 
3. Ingenious contrivance; skilfulness of de- the stomach : as, the ingestion of milk or other 
sign, construction, or execution: as, the inge- . food ! opposed to .egestion. 
nuity of a machine; the ingenuity of a puzzle mgestive (m-jes;tiv), a. \<%ngest + -ive.] Of 
or a poem. = S yn. 2. VTOM, etc. (see . J Plaining to ingestion ; having the function 
IUH-S); inventiveness, turn, knack, smartness. - ingestion. 
ingenuous (in-ien'u-us), a. [= F. ingenu = Sp. Tlle dermal pores take on the function of ingestive ca- 
Pg. It. ingemto, < L'. ingenuus, native, free-born, nals - Oegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 113. 
noble, upright, frank, candid, < ingignere (OL. Inghamite (ing'am-it), n. [< Ingltam (see def.) 
ingenere), ingenerate: see ingenite.] 1+. Free- + -He 2 .] A member of an English denomina- 
born; of honorable extraction. tion founded by Benjamin Ingham (1712-72), 
Rods and ferulas were not used by Ammonius, as being which combines elements of Methodism and 
properly the punishment of slaves, and not the correction Moraviamsm. The conversion of Ingham to Sande- 
of ingenuous freeborn men. Dryden, Plutarch, II. 359. manian views led to the disruption and nearly total ex- 
2. Generous ; noble : as, an ingenuous ardor or 
zeal. 
Nothing depraves ingenuous Spirits, and corrupts clear 
Wits, more than Want and Indigence. 
Howell, Letters, I. vi. 14. 
3. Free from restraint or reserve ; frank; open; 
candid: used of persons or things: as, an ingen- 
uous mind; an ingenuous confession. 
And in 's ingenuous countenance having read 
Pure characters of Worth, he doubted not 
All freest Trust in his fair Slave to put. 
J. Beamnont, Psyche, i. 140. 
inglorious 
Kejanus labours to marry Livia, and worketh (with all 
his ingint) to remove Tiberius from the knowledge of pub- 
lic business. B. Jonmn, Sejanus, Argument. 
Thou may'st find ... a strop whereon to sharpen thine 
acute iiujine. Scott, Monastery, xv. 
2f. An artful contrivance ; a subtle artifice : 
same as engine, 2. 
This boast of law, and law, is but a form, 
A net of Vulcan's filing, a mere ingint. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
3 (in'jin). A mechanical contrivance; a ma- 
chine : same as engine, 4. [Now only a prov. 
Eng. and U. S. pronunciation of engine.] 
inginert, . Same as enginer. 
He is an architect, an inginer, 
A soldier, a physician, a philosopher. 
B. Jonson, Neptune's Triumph. 
inginoust, '< Same as enginous. 
ingire, r. t. See ingere. 
ingirtt (in-gerf), v. t. Same as engirl. 
ingle 1 (ing'gl), n. [< Gael, aingeal, fire, light, 
sunshine, = Corn, engil, fire; prob. < L. ignis 
= Skt. agn i, fire : see igneous.] If. Fire ; flame ; 
blaze. [Scotch.] 
Sum vtheris brocht the fontanis wattir fare. 
And sum' the haly ingil with thame bare. 
Qavin Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 410. 
2. A household fire or fireplace. [Scotch.] 
His wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily, 
His clean hearth- stane, his thriftie wine's smile, . . . 
Does a' his weary kiaugh an' care beguile. 
Burns, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
ingle 2 t (ing'gl), n. [Also engle (irreg. englde) ; 
in form exactly as if < ME. engle, engel, < AS. 
engel, angel (see angel) ; but the connection 
lacks confirmation. Also, with epithesis of n 
(from the art. an, or poss. mine), ningle. The 
history is obscure, the word being usually taken 
in a sinister sense.] 1. A favorite, particu- 
larly a male favorite, in a bad sense ; a para- 
mour. 
What ! shall I have my son a stager now ? an enghle for 
players? B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. 
2. In a general sense, a person beloved; a 
friend. 
Ingle, I prithee make recourse unto ns ; we are thy 
friends ana familiars, sweet ingle. 
B. Jonson, Case is Altered, ii. 4. 
His quondam patrons, his dear ingles now. 
Matsinger, City Madam, iv. 1. 
"Ha! my dear friend and ingle, Tony Foster!" he ex- 
claimed, seizing upon the unwilling hand. 
Scott, Kenilworth, iii. 
ingle 2 t (ing'gl), r. t. [Also engle; < ingle 2 , n.] 
To wheedle ; coax. 
Do not ingle me ; do not flatter me. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, ii. 2. 
I'll presently go and enghle some broker for a poet's 
gown. B. Jonson, Poetaster, ii. 1. 
ingle-cheek (ing'gl-chek), n. The fireside. 
[Scotch.] 
There, lanely, by the ingle^heek, 
1 sat and ey'd the spewing reek. 
Burns, The Vision. 
ingle-nook (ing'gl-nuk). . A corner by the 
fire. [Scotch.] 
The ingle-nook supplies the simmer fields, 
An' aft as mony gleefu' maments yields. 
Fergusson, An Eclogue. 
ingleside (ing'gl-sid), . A fireside. [Scotch.] 
It's an auld story now, and everybody tells it, as we were 
doing, their ain way by the inglexide. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xii. 
inglobate (in-glo'bat), a. [< in- 2 + globate.] 
Formed into a globe or sphere, as nebulous 
n'jin or in-jin'), n. [< ME. ingyne; a 
var. of engine, u\t. < L. ingenium, ability, genius, 
ML. an ingenious contrivance, an engine : see 
engine, ingenious, ingeny, etc.] It. Mental en- 
dowment; natural ability; ingenuity: same as 
engine, 1. 
A tyrant earst, but now his fell ingine 
His graver age did somewhat mitigate. 
Fairfax, Tasso, i. 83. 
And this is there counted for a grete myracle, bycause 
it is done without mannes mt/.'/n-'. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgryniage, p. 54. 
pp: 
globe of; fix"within or as if within a globe. 
So that Prelaty . . . must be fain to inglobe or incube 
herself among the Presbyters. 
Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 
inglorious (in-glo'ri-us), n. [= F. inglorieitx 
= Sp. Pg. It. inglorioso, < ML. *ingloriosus, in- 
glorious, < L. in- priv. + gloriosus, glorious. Cf . 
L. inglorius, without glory, < in- priv. + gloria, 
glory.] 1. Not glorious; without fame or re- 
nown ; obscure. 
The inglorious arts of peace. 
Marvell, Cromwell's Return from Ireland. 
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. 
Gray, Elegy. 
2. Dishonorable ; disgraceful ; ignominious. 
Inglorious shelter in an alien land. 
J. Philips, Blenheim. 
Me would'st thou move to base inglorious flight? 
Pope, Iliad, v. 311. 
= Syn. 1. Undistinguished, unhonored. -2. Discreditable, 
disreputable. 
