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principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis[obs3], diathesis[obs3].
habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) Power.
moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality) Speciality; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) Tendency[obs3]; diagnostics.
V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c. adj.
Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical[obs3]; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous[obs3], haematobious[obs3], syngenic[obs3]; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite[Obs]; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate[obs3], ingenite[Obs]; indigenous; in the grain &c. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c. Interiority; to the manner born; virtual.
characteristic &c. (special) Speciality, (indicative) Indication; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.
Adv. intrinsically &c. adj.; at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly.
Phr. " character is higher than intellect " [Emerson]; "come give us a taste of your quality " magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna [Lat][ Hamlet][Nepos]; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere [Lat][Cicero]; " vital spark of heavenly flame " [Pope].
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Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical[obs3]; extraneous &c. (foreign) Extraneousness; modal, adventitious; ascititious[obs3], adscititious[obs3]; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous.
implanted, ingrafted[obs3]; inculcated, infused.
outward, apparent &c. (external) Exteriority.
Adv. extrinsically &c. adj.
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