INSTINCTIVE
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In*stinc"tive (?), a. [Cf. F. instinctif.] Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous. “Instinctive motion.” Milton. “Instinctive dread.” Cowper.
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With taste instinctive give
Each grace appropriate.
Mason.
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Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends?
Bp. Hall.
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&hand_; The terms instinctive belief, instinctive judgment, instinctive cognition, are expressions not ill adapted to characterize a belief, judgment, or cognition, which, as the result of no anterior consciousness, is, like the products of animal instinct, the intelligent effect of (as far as we are concerned) an unknown cause. Sir H. Hamilton.
Syn. -- Natural; voluntary; spontaneous; original; innate; inherent; automatic.
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