adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a connatural manner; agreeably to the nature of a thing; by nature, naturally.

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1657.  S. W., Schism Dispach’t, 399. What … most connaturally and probably follow’d out of these Texts.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. ii. 61. Connaturally engraven in the Soul.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 242. A Flame not more connaturally ascends, Than an unbounded Soul to God propends.

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1874.  W. H. Humfrey, in H. E. Manning, Ess. Relig. & Lit., III. 327. They never connaturally exist apart.

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