Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Existing at birth or from the beginning; inborn or inherent.
- adj. Originating at the same time; related.
- adj. Being in close accord or sympathy; congenial: "In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).
- adj. Biology Joined or united with a structure of the same kind, as sepals or petals.
- adj. Geology Trapped in sediment or rock at the time of deposition: connate water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inborn; implanted at or existing from birth; congenital.
- Cognate; allied in origin or nature.
- In anat. and zoology, united; not separated by a, joint or suture; confluent; specifically, in entom., immovably united; soldered together. Thus, the menturn and ligula may be connate - that is, not separately movable.
- In. botany, united congenitally: a general term including both adnate and coalescent. Some times coherent.
Wiktionary
- adj. cognate
- adj. inborn
- adj. botany united with others of the same kind (especially of sepals or petals)
- adj. geology trapped within a rock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Born with another; being of the same birth.
- adj. Congenital; existing from birth.
- adj. (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body. See
Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united
- adj. related in nature
Etymologies
- Latin connatus. See cognate. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin connātus, past participle of connāscī, to be born with : Latin com-, com- + Latin nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When there are but two opposite leaves, and these become united by their margins, we have a state of things precisely resembling that to which the term connate is applied.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Flowers 3½ inches across, produced from the end of July to the end of September, bright golden yellow; leaves large, ovate, tapering from the middle to both ends; stalk leaves sessile and nearly connate, that is, clasping the stalk by their opposite base.”
“Nor is it motion that impels us toward the past in quest of the elusive origin "connate" with poetry.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“The secret initiation is the gnosis of bliss and emptiness that arises from the disciple savouring the bodhichitta, the wisdom-gnosis initiation is the experience of connate joy that arises from the disciple and consort themselves engaging in union.”
“Shelley is enacting rather than simply representing the "origin" he will affirm later in the Defence as "connate" with poetry.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be "the expression of the Imagination": and poetry is connate with the origin of man.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“Shelley affirms at the base of his practice when he avers that "poetry is connate with the origin of man.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“Auschwitz was indeed inherently a tragedy and connate be seen as either a comedy or a farce.”
“In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.”
“This is because the sense organs of the eyes are, as with the other sense organs, on channels; but while those for touch and taste are simply bodily, or some part of the body of animals, and those for smell and hearing are channels connected to the air outside and are full of connate pneuma ¦ the eyes alone have a proper sensory body.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘connate’.
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WWF WTF?
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
whorled, viviparous, vittae, viscid, villous, valvate, unarmed, umbellate, umbel, tubercle, triquetrous, trigonous and 135 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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New and Thrilling
punaluan, ontic, arcadia, punctilio, nescience, misprision, episteme, hieratic, rebarbative, vaticinate, isopsephy, imbrication and 59 more...
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Innate
Words related to innate.
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