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And when we bear in mind that dancing, poetry, and music are connate -- are originally constituent parts of the same thing, it becomes clear that the measured movement common to them all implies a rhythmical action of the whole system, the vocal apparatus included; and that so the rhythm of music is a more subtle and complex result of this relation between mental and muscular excitement.
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- adjective Existing at birth or from the beginning; inborn or inherent.
- adjective Originating at the same time; related.
- adjective 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).
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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 Fusion of the edges of the cotyledons also occasionally takes place, as in Ebenus cretica_.
— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants -
And when we bear in mind that dancing, poetry, and music are connate--are originally constituent parts of the same thing, it becomes clear that the measured movement common to them all implies a rhythmical action of the whole system, the vocal apparatus included; and that so the rhythm of music is a more subtle and complex result of this relation between mental and muscular excitement But it is time to end this analysis, which possibly we have already carried too far.
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library -
The others, all primary, are connate -- _viz. _, radical frame of mind and body -- or adventitious.
— The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics -
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 -
And when we bear in mind that dancing, poetry, and music are connate -- are originally constituent parts of the same thing, it becomes clear that the measured movement common to them all implies a rhythmical action of the whole system, the vocal apparatus included; and that so the rhythm of music is a more subtle and complex result of this relation between mental and muscular excitement.
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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- 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.
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/ (kŏnˈātˌ, kŏ-nātˈ)/
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