Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Innate \In*nate"\, v. t.
   To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] ``The first
   innating cause.'' --Marston.

Innate \In"nate\, a. [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p.
   p. of nasci to be born. See {Native}.]
   1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate
      eloquence.

   2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the
      constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from
      experience; as, innate ideas. See {A priori}, {Intuitive}.

            There is an innate light in every man, discovering
            to him the first lines of duty in the common notions
            of good and evil.                     --South.

            Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in
            their mind common notions of morality,innate and
            written in divine letters.            --Fleming
                                                  (Origen).

            If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how
            men, barely by the use of their natural faculties,
            may attain to all the knowledge they have, without
            the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive
            at certainty without any such original notions or
            principles.                           --Locke.

   3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament;
      as, an innate anther. --Gray.

   {Innate ideas} (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality,
      right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the
      mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

Source : WordNet®

innate
     adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an
            unconditioned reflex" [syn: {unconditioned}, {unlearned}]
            [ant: {conditioned}]
     2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural
        leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: {natural},
         {born(p)}, {innate(p)}]
     3: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired
        during fetal development [syn: {congenital}, {inborn}, {inherent}]