a. Obs. [f. L. connāt-us CONNATE + -IVE, associated with native.] = CONNATE 1. (In first quot. app. subst. ‘fellow-native.’)
1616. Sylvester, Tobacco Battered, Wks. (1621), 1130. Yet th’ Heathen have with th’Ill som Good withall; Sith Their connative ’tis con-naturall.
1649. Bulwer, Pathomyot., I. vi. 27. The force … serves the Soule for the commodity of the Body, and hath a connative Species of its conservation.
1651. Fuller, Abel Rediv., Chytræus (1867), II. 134. Who from a lad An even connative disposition had To learning.
