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Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

Connection by birth; natural union. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.

Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.

Participation in a common nature or character. [R.] Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.

A consignee. [Obs.] Jenkins.

ng or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.

One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. Fallows.

Joint signature. [R.] Colgrave.

terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

pt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Having the same bounds; conterminous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric. Burke.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country. Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris. Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the…