connatural
Americanadjective
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belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.
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of the same or a similar nature.
adjective
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having a similar nature or origin
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congenital or innate; connate
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of connatural
1585–95; < Medieval Latin connātūrālis, equivalent to Latin con- con- + nātūrālis natural
Example Sentences
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The separated soul, though it is an existing individual substance, retains its essential communicability to its connatural material principle, the body.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
But hatred of one's connatural good cannot be first, but is something last, because such like hatred is a proof of an already corrupted nature, even as love of an extraneous good.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
They may be such that in the ordinary course of nature, and so far as its forces and laws are concerned, they are never found to be absent from their connatural substances—inseparable accidents.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
But the appetite of a natural body does not repose save in a connatural place.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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