The vigour of the sentence in its original Latin carried it ringing down the centuries: "Major est Scripturae auctoritas quam omnis humani ingenii capacitas.
It was published by Elzevir at Leyden in 1641 under the title De ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam et meliores litteras aptitudine.
Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis=--This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour.
Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere=--It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits.
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris=--It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
Ingenii largitor venter=--The belly is the bestower of genius.
Moderari animo et orationi, cum sis iratus, non mediocris ingenii est=--To be able to temper your indignation and language when you are angry is evidence of a chastened disposition.
Kritzius is one of those who interprets in the way to which Cortius alludes, as if the drift of the passage were, Quanto magis animus corpori praestat, tanto rectius ingenii opibus gloriam quaerere.
Every one, as Jerome says, argued in this direction or that pro captu ingenii sui.
Hermann, in his anxiety to rescue Plato from the charge of rashness ("temerario ingenii lusu," p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ingenii" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
