All 3 Uses of
congenital
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Mr Mulligan accepted of the invitation and, expatiating upon his design, told his hearers that he had been led into this thought by a consideration of the causes of sterility, both the inhibitory and the prohibitory, whether the inhibition in its turn were due to conjugal vexations or to a parsimony of the balance as well as whether the prohibition proceeded from defects congenital or from proclivities acquired.†
Chpt 14
- A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!†
Chpt 14 *
- …of simian and (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(congenital) a physiological attribute present at birth; or an ingrained trait