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connate, a.|ˈkɒneɪt|
Also 9 conate.
[ad. L. connāt-us born together, twin, pa. pple. of connāscī to be born together, f. con- together + nāscī to be born. (Walker, Smart, and other orthoepists have the stress coˈnnate; ˈconnate is in Craig 1847.)]
1. Born with a person; existing in a person or thing from birth or origin, or as a part of his nature; inborn, innate, congenital. (Usually of ideas, principles, etc.)
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. 117 He disputes against Plato's connate species. 1656Artif. Handsom. 82 Epidemicall and connate, or at least customary to all nations. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 60 Who deny all Connate Notions in the Speculative Intellect. 1704Newton Opticks (J.), Their dispositions to be reflected..are connate with the rays, and immutable. 1771Richardson in Phil. Trans. LXI. 187 These various coverings are not connate with the insect. 1879Lewes Study Psychol. 32 To a great extent the Mechanism is connate, Experience is acquired.
2. Of two or more qualities, etc.: Born together; coeval in origin; existing together as parts of the nature of their possessor.
1819Southey in Q. Rev. XXII. 63 These men partook more of roguery than fanaticism—qualities which are frequently connate. 1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 718 On her..forehead..thought and feeling seemed conate. 1872H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. I. iii. viii. 356 The ability to perceive direction, and the ability to take advantage of the perception, are necessarily connate.
3. Akin or agreeing in nature; cognate, allied, related, congenerous; congenial.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 170 They play and sport together. A thing so true a symbole of deerenesse, and alwaies so connate thereunto. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 33 Light, if there be any Connate Spirit in the Lucid Body, is apt to convey the Radiation. 1836Emerson Nature Wks. (Bohn) II. 143 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages.
4. a. Bot. and Zool. Congenitally united, so as to have the form of one compound organ or body; used, e.g. of leaves united at the base; of elytra (in insects), bones (in vertebrates), etc., typically distinct but in certain species coalescent.
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 204 Upper pairs of leaves connate, or so joined as to form but one. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxv. 596 In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate or have both sutures as it were soldered together. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xvi. 64 Under-lip connate with the maxillæ. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth (1855) 16 In the skeletons of most animals the centrums of two or more segments become, in certain parts..confluent, or they may be connate. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 175 Honeysuckle..Bracts leafy, very large, connate.
b. connate-perfoliate (in Bot.): used of opposite leaves united at the base so as apparently to form a single broad leaf through which the stem passes, as in Chlora perfoliata.
1880Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 108.
5. Geol. Designating water trapped in a sedimentary rock during its deposition.
1908A. C. Lane in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. xix. 502 Quite different may be the water buried with the beds in the first place, to which we may fitly apply the adjective connate. 1955Brown & Dey India's Min. Wealth (ed. 3) 647 Geologists also recognise two further underground groups—‘connate waters’ which were trapped in some sedimentary rocks during their deposition and ‘juvenile waters’ which are of plutonic or magmatic origin.
Hence ˈconnately adv., in a connate way; ˈconnateness, quality of being connate.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. xi. (1821) 287 By its own connateness and sympathy with all saving truth. 1884W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 256 Most of the objects of civilized men's emotions are things to which it would be preposterous to suppose their nervous systems connately adapted. 1936Mind XLV. 185 The waltz is a species of dance, i.e. subordinate in generality to it, and therefore the connateness between dancing and the waltz is asymmetrical. |