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INSTINCT'IVE, a. Prompted by instinct; spontaneous; acting without reasoning, deliberation, instruction or experience; determined by natural impulse or propensity. The propensity of bees to form hexagonal cells for holding their honey and their young, must be instinctive.

1913 Definition
Instinctive (instinctive)
a.(?)
In*stinc"tive
[Cf. F. instinctif.]
  1. 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.

    With taste instinctive give
    Each grace appropriate.
    Mason.

    Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends? Bp. Hall.

    * 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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