connatural

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How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

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

Under each kind of pleasures, we find some that are not natural speaking absolutely, and yet connatural in some respect.

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

And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels.

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

These it realizes gradually, through the exercise of its connatural activities.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter