connatural

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The separated soul, though it is an existing individual substance, retains its essential communicability to its connatural material principle, the body.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

These ideas, he held, are not derived from sensation, neither are they generalizations from experience, but they are inborn and connatural.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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

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