connatural

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Now the connatural mode of the human soul is that it should understand sometimes actually, and sometimes potentially.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition 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

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

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

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