connatural
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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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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
Since therefore everyone takes pleasure in a connatural operation, as stated in Ethic. vii, 14 and x, 4, it seems that doing good to others is not a cause of pleasure.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The idea of God is connatural to the human mind.
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
The human nature of our Divine Lord has not its own connatural subsistence; this is supplied by the subsistence of the Divine Person.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
