instinctive

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INSTINCT'IVE, adjective 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
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