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• Many animals fear fire by instinct.
• By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.
• In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.
• an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct
• Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
• The chariot of paternal deity [...] / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.
• a noble performance, instinct with sound principle
• This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.