connatural

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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 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

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

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)

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