ingenious intelligent, acute, lively:
“thy most ingenious sense,”
HAMLET, v. 1. 242
;
“ingenious feeling Of my huge sorrows,”
KING LEAR, iv. 6. 280
(According to Warburton, “Ingenious feeling signifies a feeling from an
understanding not disturbed or disordered, but which, representing things as they are,
makes the sense of pain the more exquisite”).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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