Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- adjective Biology Joined or united with a structure of the same kind, as sepals or petals.
- adjective Geology Trapped in sediment or rock at the time of deposition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Born with another; being of the same birth.
- adjective Congenital; existing from birth.
- adjective (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body. See
Illust. ofConnate-perfoliate .
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- adjective
cognate - adjective
inborn - adjective botany
united with others of the same kind (especially ofsepals orpetals ) - adjective geology
trapped within arock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united
- adjective related in nature
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various
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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' 2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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' 2007
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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' 2007
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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' 2007
qms commented on the word connate
The beasts have convened to debate:
Should jackal or louse bear the weight,
Or lizard take blame
Sparing others the shame
That Donald and they be connate.
January 18, 2019