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

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

The human nature of our Divine Lord has not its own connatural subsistence; this is supplied by the subsistence of the Divine Person.

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

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

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 Coffey, Peter