Definition of "ingenium" [ingenium]

• Bent or turn of mind; innate talent. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Descartes employs the term ingenium to mean both an unusual capability to dis - cover the truth (viz., new truths) and a special talent"
• "Elizabethans still employed the term ingenium, or its counterpart at that time, “wit.”"
• "Edgar Zilsel has pointed out that the term ingenium as characterizing extraordinary inborn talent was unknown in the Middle Ages (Zilsel, pp. 251ff.)."