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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It is that primitive life which was most connatural to the soul of man, which sin did deprive us of.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
The idea of God is connatural to the human mind.
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)
No real being is by nature inert or aimless; no real being is without its connatural faculties, forces and functions.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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
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
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