connatural
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Accordingly, in matters subject to human reason, and directed to man's connatural end, man can work through the judgment of his reason.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Peter Coffey
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 Peter Coffey
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
They may be such that in the ordinary course of nature, and so far as its forces and laws are concerned, they are never found to be absent from their connatural substances—inseparable accidents.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
