Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act ii. sc. 2.
Since heaven is so glorious a state, and so certainly designed for us, if we please, let us spend all that we have, all our passions and affections, all our study and industry, all our desires and stratagems, all our witty and ingenuous faculties, towards the arriving thither.—Bishop Taylor, Holy Dying, c. 2, § 4.
Christian simplicity teaches openness and ingenuity in contracts and matters of buying and selling.—Id., Sermon 24. part ii.
When a man makes use of the name of any simple idea, which he perceives is not understood, or is in danger to be mistaken, he is obliged by the laws of ingenuity and the end of speech, to declare his meaning, and make known what idea he makes it stand for.—Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, b. iii. c. 11, § 14.
It [gratitude] is such a debt as is left to every man’s ingenuity (in respect to any legal coaction) whether he will pay it or no.—South, Sermons, vol. i. p. 410.
By his ingenuousness he [the good handicrafts-man] leaves his art better than he found it.—Fuller, Holy State, b. ii. c. 19.
Inn. This has always meant a lodging, a place to which one turns in; but it is now, and for a long time has been, restricted to one which yields food and shelter, or it may be only the last, in return for payment. Such terms as Lincoln’s Inn, Gray’s Inn, attest the older use of the word.
Arcite anoon unto his inne is fare,
As fayn as foul is of the brighte sonne.
Chaucer, Knightes Tale, 1578 (Morris, ii. p. 75).