connatural

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There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.

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

And since works of virtue are connatural to reason, while works of vice are contrary to nature, therefore it is that works of virtue are called fruits, but not so works of vice.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) 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

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