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
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Hence we may confine our attention here to the distinction between these two classes of accident and their connatural substances.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
These ideas, he held, are not derived from sensation, neither are they generalizations from experience, but they are inborn and connatural.
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Another principle is man's habitual inclination to do good, by reason of which doing good becomes connatural to him: for which reason the liberal man takes pleasure in giving to others.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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