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Connatural   Listen
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Connatural  adj.  
1.
Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. "These affections are connatural to us."
2.
Partaking of the same nature. "And mix with our connatural dust."






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"Connatural" Quotes from Famous Books



... they beget; but what is begotten is swifter, for it is carried to fro, and moves from place to place. Apply this to sense:—When the eye and the appropriate object meet together and give birth to whiteness and the sensation connatural with it, which could not have been given by either of them going elsewhere, then, while the sight is flowing from the eye, whiteness proceeds from the object which combines in producing the colour; and so the ...
— Theaetetus • Plato

... much, in spite of the disproportionate consequences of his sin, because we felt that he was but human and that we, in his place, might have sinned too, so we may easily forgive our real ancestor, whose connatural sin we are from moment to moment committing, since it is only the necessary rashness of venturing to be without fore-knowing the price or the fruits ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... keeping with, fitting, proper to the cardinal's calling; an evangelical gird for an evangelical man: what more kindly? Kindly, connatural, homogeneous. But now for a bushel of examples, some of which will surely avail to insense the reader in the purport of this epithet, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various

... there yet no other way besides Those painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? "There is," said Michael, "if thou will observe The rule of not too ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... quality to produce such effects, nor to act rather than to be acted on when they are in the bodies, but being there susceptible, of various temperatures and differences. For Epicurus himself, in his Second Book against Theophrastus, affirming that colors are not connatural to bodies, but are engendered there according to certain situations and positions with respect to the sight of man, says: "For this reason a body is no more colored than destitute of color." And a little above he writes thus, word ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch



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