† coˈnnative, 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. |