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Definition of Innative
1. a. Native.
Definition of Innative
1. Adjective. (obsolete) native ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Innative
1. native [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innative
Literary usage of Innative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"innative, adj. Innate, native; originally implanted. ... And look how lyons close
kept, fed by hand, Lose quite th' innative fire of spirit and ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"innative, adj. Innate. —"To se gif he micht find, be aventure, thay pe- pill,
... throw innative ..."
3. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"We have before observed that " implied " is used in the sense of the Latin
implicates, e innative—" natural;" the root from which the tree sprang. t ..."
4. Livy's History of Rome: The First Five Books by Livy (1903)
"innative. Used pretty often by Bellenden, and common in Scottish writers before
it appears in English works. It is explained by Douglas, II. ..."
5. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Believe me, to his credit be it spoke, He is a man of heedful providence, And
one that by innative courtesy Wins love from strangers. Be it without offence, ..."
6. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"1 praise him not; it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In
him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, ..."
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