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connatural, a.|kəˈnætjʊərəl|
Also 6–9 conatural.
[ad. med.L. connātūrāl-is, f. con- together + nātūrāl-is natural; cf. F. connaturel.]
1. Belonging to as a natural accompaniment, or as a property inherent by nature or from birth; congenital, innate, natural (to living beings).
1592Davies Immort. Soul xxx. (1714) 92 In Man's Mind we find an Appetite To learn..Which is co-natural [mod. edd. conn-], and born with it. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 167 Natural or connatural heate. 1616[see connative]. 1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 143/1 Vice is congenit or connaturall to beasts. 1655Culpepper Riverius ii. iii. 67 If it be connatural, it is incurable. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 110 Virtue his connat'ral Temper grew. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 296 It is proper and co-natural to Him [God], to be propitious. 1862C. J. Ellicott Dest. Creature i. (1865) 16 Deep-seated aversions and connatural hostilities.
b. to († with) things.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 78 Welsh..is..the prime maternall tongue of this island, and connaturall with it. 1670Wittie in Phil. Trans. V. 1082, I rather think, the Saltness of the Sea to be connatural to it. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 66 The small-pox, a foreign disease, no way connatural to their healthy climate. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 157 If, indeed, ascetic virtue could ever be divested of its connatural evil tendency.
2. Of the same or like nature, agreeing in nature, allied, cognate, congenerous.
1601Holland Pliny I. 449 The sauour and smell, which is connaturall vnto the tast, and hath a great affinitie with it. 1751Harris Hermes 336 Between the Medium and themselves there is nothing connatural. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §18 Equality is conceivable only between things that are connatural.
†3. Agreeable or suited to the nature of a thing or person; congenial. Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 228 Iniuries were violent, benefits connaturall. a1628Preston Serm. bef. His Majestie (1630) 45 Plants..in a soile that is not connaturall and sutable to them. 1687G. Towerson Baptism 94 All good is opposite to such an estate, and all evil connatural to it.
B. n.
†1. A thing connatural, a native characteristic.
1654Cokaine Dianea ii. 137 Although Ambition and a desire to be beloved be connaturals to women.
2. A person or thing of the same or like nature.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. vii. i. (R.), Iron..moves to the earth, which is the region and country of its connaturalls. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 584 My Fellow, i.e. one united by community of nature..might perhaps be most nearly represented by ‘connatural’. |