connatural

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For the appetite of a thing is moved and tends towards its connatural end naturally; and this movement is due to a certain conformity of the thing with its end.

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

For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.

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

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)

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

Now no act is perfectly produced by an active power, unless it be connatural to that power by reason of some form which is the principle of that action.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint