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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Again, the individual corporeal substance can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural accident of external or local extension; this latter can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural substance;158 therefore these are absolutely and really distinct.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
But it is arbitrary to assume the existence of a power which could never pass fully into the act connatural to it.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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
Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
For the appetite of a thing is moved and tends towards its connatural end naturally; and this movement is due to a certain conformity of the thing with its end.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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