connatural
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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 no act is perfectly produced by an active power, unless it be connatural to that power by reason of some form which is the principle of that action.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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
No real being is by nature inert or aimless; no real being is without its connatural faculties, forces and functions.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
Wherefore this pleasure is very desirable as regards the sensitive appetite, both on account of the intensity of the pleasure, and because such like concupiscence is connatural to man.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
