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† ˈingeny Obs.
Also 7 inj-, eng-.
[ad. L. ingeni-um innate quality, nature, character, genius, f. in- (in-2) + gen-, stem of gign-ĕre (gen-ĕre) to beget, cause to be born.]
1. Mind, intellect, mental faculties; mental tendency, disposition.
c1477Caxton Jason 72 Thou art..the right oustyll that pollisshith and enlumyneth us and our rude ingenyes. 1583in Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 290 Subtil, secret, and sharp of ingeny. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 42 A fat belly hath a leane ingenie. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 2 Not Hope, but real Worth doth magnifie The happy Torrent of the Ingenie. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 483 A person of great erudition..and of a most polite ingenie. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 230 In which your Ingeny finds Delectation.
b. Distinctive character, nature, or ‘spirit’ (of a thing): = genius 3 b–e.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iv. vii. (1854) 279 How Oxford, a place of books and colleges, could have been reduced into its gown and peace, but by a motion..as little destructive, and as suitable to the ingeny of such a place of arts. 1662J. Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., Complexions 2 The property and Ingeny or Inclination of the Constellations.
2. Intellectual capacity, mental ability; genius, talent, cleverness, ingenuity.
1474Caxton Chesse ii. ii. (1860) B iv b, The senatours..commendyd gretly the ingenye and wytte of the chyld. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 77 Miserere mei! what an ingeny is heere? 1602N. Baxter Sidneys Ourania N ij, Renowned Poets, of highest Ingenie, Shall decke thy tombe with ever⁓lasting fame. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xiii. (1682) 110 The deaf and dumb have many times..very remarkable mechanical ingenies. 1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic ii. xix. 92 The scholar may have more ingeny and industry than his master.
†3. An invention; a clever contrivance. Obs. rare.
1588R. Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 101 The admirable inuention and the subtill ingenie of printing. |