Innate

(in'nāt.) [From L. innatus, born with us.] (Bot.) Adhering to the apex of a thing, as the anther to the apex of a filament.-(Phil.) I. ideas are principles or ideas supposed to be inborn, or stamped on the mind from the first moment of its vitality, and brought into the world with it;-it is a doctrine which has given rise to much controversy, and which Locke, in his "E ay on the Human Understanding," endeavored to refute. [s. 485]