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Connatural

Connatural \Con*nat"u*ral\ (?; 135), a. [Pref. con- + natural.]

  1. Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.

    These affections are connatural to us.
    --L'Estrange.

  2. Partaking of the same nature.

    And mix with our connatural dust.
    --Milton.

Wiktionary
connatural

a. 1 similar in nature. 2 inborn; inherent; natural

WordNet
connatural
  1. adj. similar in nature; "and mix with our connatural dust"- John Milton

  2. normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good" [syn: inborn, inbred, native]

Usage examples of "connatural".

Drawn though he had been by her mental cry and its connatural pull on his senses, he had been sworn to use his abilities only for matters of highest security.

His orders took hours to fulfill: hours, deep in this connatural matrix.

Ellet's feathery touch, connatural enough to caress—although the "other­ness" felt distinct to Brennen—-swept over his surface emotional presence.

They're trained to stay alert for connatural individuals simply because they can marry no one else.

Only the highly connatural can pair bond, and Brennen's nature is not quite like most of the starbred.

But he's not displeased with you for following the independent pattern of your connatural mate.

After wait­ing all his life for a connatural woman, to lose her would be anguish like that when he had lost his father.

But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To Death, and mix with our connatural dust?

But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust?

From all sides rush the thirsty brood of war – Austria, and that foul Woman of the North, The lustful murderess of her wedded lord, And he, connatural mind!

Of course, consequent causal ignorance always follows upon culpable retention, which can be caused and spread by three subsidiary kinds of ignoranceaffected, connatural and crass.