genetous

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Adjective

genetous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Congenital.
    • 1877, William Wotherspoon Ireland, On idiocy and imbecility, page 43:
      In process of time, by studying the symptoms in life and the lesions after death, we may be able to resolve genetous idiocy into some new or old classes.
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