Connascent
(Con*nas"cent) a. Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.
Connate
(Con"nate) a. [L. connatus; con- + natus born, p. p. of nasci. See Cognate.]
1. Born with another; being of the same birth.
2. Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." South.
A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original
conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during
gestation or delivery are called connate.
Dunglison.
3. (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as,
connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.
Connate-perfoliate
(Con"nate-per*fo"li*ate) a. (Bot.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce
a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; — applied to leaves, as the leaves
of the boneset.
Connation
(Con*na"tion) n. Connection by birth; natural union. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Connatural
(Con*nat"u*ral) 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.
Connaturality
(Con*nat`u*ral"i*ty) n. Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.]
A congruity and connaturality between them.
Sir M. Hale.
Connaturalize
(Con*nat"u*ral*ize) v. t. To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.]
Dr. J. Scott.
Connaturally
(Con*nat"u*ral*ly), adv. By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.
Connaturalness
(Con*nat"u*ral*ness), n. Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.
Connature
(Con*na"ture) n. Participation in a common nature or character. [R.]
Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states
of consciousness.
H. Spencer.
Connect
(Con*nect") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Connected; p. pr. & vb. n. Connecting>.] [L. connectere, -
nexum; con- + nectere to bind. See Annex.]
1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to
establish a bond or relation between.
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
Pope.
A man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use
it in a syllogism.
Locke.
