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instinctive, a. (adv.)|ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv|
[f. L. instinct-, ppl. stem of instinguĕre to instigate + -ive: see instinct n., and cf. F. instinctif (1803 in Hatz.).]
Of the nature of instinct; operating by or resulting from instinct or innate prompting.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, c, From Instinctive Causes, and the strict Impresse of Nature, none must Life neglect. 1652Bp. Hall Invis. World i. §6 Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends..who but our angels hath wrought it? 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. to C'tess [Bristol] (1887) I. 240 So powerful is the instinctive fondness natural to parents. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. iv. §6 (1864) 267 The alternation of the lower limbs is instinctive in man. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. viii. (1878) 205 An action which we ourselves require experience to enable us to perform, when performed by an animal..without experience, and when performed by many individuals in the same way, without their knowing for what purpose it is performed, is usually said to be instinctive. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. xii, Her arms had not yet relaxed their instinctive clutch.
b. poet. as adv. = instinctively.
1715–20Pope Iliad viii. 544 Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly. 1827Pollok Course T. vii, Instinctive every soul Flew to its clayey part. |