connatural

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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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Under each kind of pleasures, we find some that are not natural speaking absolutely, and yet connatural in some respect.

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

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

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