connatural

American  

[kuh-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl] / kəˈnætʃ ər əl, -ˈnætʃ rəl /

adjective

1. belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.

2. of the same or a similar nature.

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connatural British  

/ kəˈnætʃərəl /

adjective

1. having a similar nature or origin

2. congenital or innate; connate

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Other Word Forms

• connaturality noun
• connaturally adverb
• connaturalness noun

Etymology

Origin of connatural

1585–95; < Medieval Latin connātūrālis, equivalent to Latin con- con- + nātūrālis natural

Example Sentences

How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

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

"The Truths of God are connatural to the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light."

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

Now it is connatural to a human soul to receive species of a lesser universality than the angels receive; so that it knows different specific natures by different intelligible species.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint