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)

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

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

Again, the individual corporeal substance can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural accident of external or local extension; this latter can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural substance;158 therefore these are absolutely and really distinct.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.

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