[f. L. connāt-us CONNATE: see -ATION; cf. separate, separation, etc.]

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  † 1.  ‘Connection by birth; natural union’ (Webster, 1864). Obs.–0

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1846.  in Worcester (who cites More).

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  2.  Connate condition; congenital union of parts normally distinct: see CONNATE 4.

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1854.  Owen, in Circ. Sc. (c. 1865), II. 58/2. The connation of the pre-frontals and lachrymals.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 307. By the connation, the coalescence, the abortion, or … modification of their primitive elements.

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