connatural

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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

Accordingly, in matters subject to human reason, and directed to man's connatural end, man can work through the judgment of his reason.

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

Now it is connatural to a human soul to receive species of a lesser universality than the angels receive; so that it knows different specific natures by different intelligible species.

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

It is that primitive life which was most connatural to the soul of man, which sin did deprive us of.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

"The Truths of God are connatural to the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light."

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew