connatural

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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

Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.

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

Wherefore this pleasure is very desirable as regards the sensitive appetite, both on account of the intensity of the pleasure, and because such like concupiscence is connatural to man.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

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)

But the appetite of a natural body does not repose save in a connatural place.

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