Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Innate; inborn.
- adjective Related or similar in nature; cognate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the same nature; like in quality or kind; closely related or assimilated.
- Belonging by birth or nature; intimately pertaining; connate; inborn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.
- adjective Partaking of the same nature.
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- adjective
Similar innature . - adjective
inborn ;inherent ;natural
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective similar in nature
- adjective normally existing at birth
Etymologies
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Examples
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But whether the obedience of a pious life, performed out of a belief or persuasion of the truth of the gospel, ought to pass for that faith which justifies, or only for the effect or consequent of it, yet certainly it is such an effect as issues by a kind of connatural, constant efficiency and result from it.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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Benedict uses a low-key version of gift theory to promote the idea that connatural with the divine plan are forms of economic activity with a built-in element of the gratuitous: in effect, preferential treatment by business in dealing with the poor.
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Peace is natural, happiness is connatural in our species.
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It is well to be a wow gold, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life — these are the connatural qualities of a wow gold; they are the objects of a University.
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The Dawe Brothers: Such a connatural, close knit military family is rare in this day and age. posted by The Monarchist at 2:42 PM
PRO PATRIA 2007
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The Dawe Brothers: Such a connatural, close knit military family is rare in this day and age. posted by The Monarchist at 2:42 PM
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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“The unitive act of man and woman cannot be separated from its connatural dimension, which is that of procreation and which makes responsible paternity and maternity possible.”
Firedoglake » If I Were Iran: How Republicans Have Weakened America 2006
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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.”
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The subjects of drying are water and the various watery fluids and those bodies which contain water either foreign or connatural.
Meteorology 2002
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For the matter is what is determined by the heat connatural to the object, and as long as the ratio between them exists in it a thing maintains its nature.
Meteorology 2002
fbharjo commented on the word connatural
connatural knowledge
January 1, 2013