A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1533, 1638
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Innative, adj. Also -yve, -ife, -yfe. [Appar. a combination of late L. innātus and L. nātīvus, Native a. Also later e.m.E. (1652).]
1. Innate, inborn (mental qualities).1513 Doug. i. Prol. 97.
Besyde hys innatyue pollecy, Hummanyte, curage, fredome and chevalry 1513 Ib. Comment i/1.
Innative is alsmekil to say as inborn 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I. 44/32.
To schaw that wee ar na les dantouris of oure innative ferocite and ire 1531 Bell. Boece (1821) II. 264.
Makbeth returnit fra al meiknes to his innative cruelte 1533 Boece iii. xviii. 117.
Vespasiane be innative clemence … remittit to Arvirag all offensis1638 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 70.
Out of our innative indulgence to our people
2. Belonging to one as a birth-right; native.1533 Boece iv. xi. 142.
Quhat suld move Romanis … to … iniustlie reif fra Albianis thare innative liberte
