connatural

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I answer that, The species whereby the angels understand are not drawn from things, but are connatural to them.

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

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

Neither, therefore, can the repose of the animal appetite, which is pleasure, be elsewhere than in something connatural.

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

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

There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.

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)