ingeny
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ingenium. See ingenious.
Noun edit
ingeny
- (obsolete) natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity
- 1683, Richard Baxter, Dying Thoughts:
- it [God's mercy] chose me suitable company and habitation; it gave me betimes a teachable ingeny
References edit
- “ingeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.