English

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Etymology

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See ingenious.

Verb

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ingeniate (third-person singular simple present ingeniates, present participle ingeniating, simple past and past participle ingeniated)

  1. (obsolete) To invent; to contrive.
    • 1607, Samuel Daniel, Funeral Poem Upon the Death of the Noble Earl of Devonshire:
      And I must all I can ingeniate To answere for the same

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ingeniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

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Adjective

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ingeniāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ingeniātus

Spanish

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Verb

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ingeniate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ingeniar combined with te