Natural(a.)
- Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
Natural(a.)
- Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
Natural(a.)
- Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
Natural(a.)
- Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
Natural(a.)
- Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
Natural(a.)
- Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
Natural(a.)
- Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
Natural(a.)
- Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
Natural(a.)
- Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
Natural(a.)
- Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
Natural(a.)
- Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
Natural(a.)
- Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
Natural(a.)
- Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Natural(n.)
- One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
Natural(n.)
- A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Naturalism(n.)
- A state of nature; conformity to nature.
Naturalism(n.)
- The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.
Naturalisms
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Naturalization(n.)
- The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
Naturalizations
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Naturalize(v. t.)
- To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
Naturalize(v. t.)
- To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
Naturalize(v. t.)
- To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
Naturalize(v. t.)
- To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Naturally(adv.)
- In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
Naturalness(n.)
- The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
Naturalnesses
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Naturals
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Nature(n.)
- The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.
Nature(n.)
- The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence.
Nature(n.)
- The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.
Nature(n.)
- Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
Nature(n.)
- The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.