connatural

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Now a thing is indebted in a special way to that which is its connatural principle of being and government.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

In conscious agencies this inclination or tendency to actions conformable or connatural to their being is not always in act; it is aroused by conscious cognition, perception, or imagination of a good, and operates intermittently.

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

Hence we may confine our attention here to the distinction between these two classes of accident and their connatural substances.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter