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Nature
NATURE, n. [L. from nature, born, produced,]
1. In a general sense, whatever is made or produced; a word that comprehends all the works of God; the universe. Of a phoenix we say, there is no such thing in nature.
And look through nature up to natures God.
2. By a metonymy of the effect for the cause, nature is used for the agent, creator, author, producer of things, or for the powers that produce them. By the expression, trees and fossils are produced by nature, we mean, they are formed or produced by certain inherent powers in matter, or we mean that they are produced by God, the Creator, the Author of whatever is made or produced. The opinion that things are produced by inherent powers of matter, independent of a supreme intelligent author, is atheism. But generally men mean by nature, thus used, the Author of created things, or the operation of his power.
3. The essence, essential qualities or attributes of a thing, which constitute it what it is; as the nature of the soul; the nature of blood; the nature of a fluid; the nature of plants, or of a metal; the nature of a circle or an angle. When we speak of the nature of man, we understand the peculiar constitution of his body or mind, or the qualities of the species which distinguish him from other animals. When we speak of the nature of a man, or an individual of the race, we mean his particular qualities or constitution; either the peculiar temperament of his body, or the affections of his mind, his natural appetites, passions, disposition or temper. So of irrational animals.
4. The established or regular course of things; as when we say, an event is not according to nature, or it is out of the order of nature.
5. A law or principle of action or motion in a natural body. A stone by nature falls, or inclines to fall.
6. Constitution aggregate powers of a body, especially a living one. We say, nature is strong or weak; nature is almost exhausted.
7. The constitution and appearances of things.
The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists or historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever.
8. Natural affection or reverence.
Have we not seen, the murdering son ascend his parents bed through violated nature force his way?
9. System of created things.
He binding nature fast in fate, Left conscience free and will.
10. Sort; species; kind; particular character.
A dispute of this nature caused mischief to a king and an archbishop.
11. Sentiments r images conformed to nature, or to truth and reality.
Only nature can please those tastes which are unprejudiced and refined.
12. Birth. No man is noble by nature.
NATURE, v.t. To endow with natural qualities. [Not in use]
nature appears in definitions for these words:
Abevacuation Absinthian Abstraction Abyssinians Acetous Acoustics Acquired Acquirement Acroatic Actual Adenology Admixtion Advantage Aerial Aeriform Agaty Aggregation Agnate Agreeable Akin Alteration Alternate Alumish Ambrosial Amphibious Amphibiousness Amphibolic Anacreontic Ancestor Anecdote Angelical Angelites Animal Anthropology Anthroposophy Aphthous Apollinarians Apostematous Appertain Approximate Aqueous Aretology Argillaceous Arian Art Asbestine Assay Assimilation Assort Astonishing Atlantica Augitic Augustinians Avenaceous Aversion Axiomatic Barbadoes-cherry Beastly Beautiful Beauty Being Bench Benignity Better Bezoar Bind Blasphemy Blood Bodily Bolary Bolt Bom Bottomry Bounteous Brief Briny Brutal Brutism Bugger Bullish But Cabirian Calcarious Cameo Camphor-tree Can Canon Celestify Cessation Charact Charm Chartulary Chattel Cheesy Chimistry Circumstantial Clavichord Clayish Clean Cleverness Closeness Cogent Cognation Coindication Colluctancy Common Compatible Complimentally Composition Compost Comprehension Compunctious Computation Conceive Conchologist Concord Concreate Condescension Confer Confine Conformable Confound Confusion Congener Congeneric Congenial Congeniality Congenialness Conglutinative Connatural Connaturality Connaturally Connaturalness Conscience Considering Constant Constrain Consubstantial Consubstantiality Consubstantiate Contraindication Contranatural Contrariety Converse Cornet Corpuscular Cosmology Could Counter-natural Course Creamy Credible Crime Crustaceous Crusty Damianists Dead Deadness Debt Declarative Deeply Default Degradation Deist Deity Demi-god Demi-natured Demonstration Depravation Derive Describe Describing Description Deviate Diagnostic Differ Difference Different Dignity Digressive Disbelief Discerner Disclaim Discourse Discriminate Display Dissent Dissimilar Dissolution Distant Dive Divine Divineness Divinity Docimastic Doctrinal Double-natured Dragons-blood Dropsical Dualistic Economy Electricity Elegance Elementariness Eliminate Emotion Enable Enamel Endowment Energy Engage Eon Epilogistic Equilibration Err Errableness Eruginous Erysipelatous Essence Essentially Ethereal Eutychian Eutychianism Examination Executive Exordium Exponential Eye Fabaceous Facility Factitious Faculty Faithfully Fantastic Farcical Farcy Fear Fee Fellow Feme-covert Fether Feverish Feverous Fiducial Fierceness Fistulous Flamy Flesh Fossilist Fulcrum Gasometry Gaudy Gazel Gelatinous Gemmeous Genially Genius Gentle Gerund Gift Gifted Glimpse Gluish Gnostic Godhead Goitrous Goodness Granitic Gummosity Gummous Gummy Gypseous Habit Hagish Hairy Harass Harsh Haughty Help Herby Hereby Hermetic Herpetic Heterogeneal Heterogeneous Heterogeneousness High Hippelaph History Hold Homogeneous Homogeneousness Homogeny Human Humanist Humanity Humanize Humor Humoral Humorist Hyperbolic Idolatrous Igneous Ill Ill-nature Imagination Imitate Imitation Immensurable Imposition Impossible Impostured Impotence Impotent Impracticability Improvable Inborn Incapacity Incarnation Incarnative Incident Incomprehensible Incongenial Incongeniality Indecorum Indelicacy Induce Infectious Inflammatory Inflexibility Inhabitant Inherit Inquisitiveness Insected Insectile Instrumentally Insufficiency Insuperable Integrity Intermediate Intrigue Intrinsically Investigate Irregular Irresistibility Jacobite Kimbo Kind Kindly Kindness Kindred Knit Land Lapidary Lapideous Lardaceous Law Lawless Lease Leporine Lesser Liberty Lie Life Ligamental Limited Lively Loamy Look Loricate Lothly Luciferians Lunged Mace Magical Magnetism Malignant Malignity Man Manhood Manlike Marcasitic Marrowish Martial Mateless Measure Mediator Meliorate Menilite Metallic Metaphysics Meteorous Method Miracle Misdemeanor Mislay Mixture Mold Monadic Monophysite Monstrosity Monstrous Monstrously Monstrousness Moral Morally Morbillous Mortality Mothery Mountebank Mucilaginous Munerary Muriatic Musk Mutable Native Nativeness Natural Naturalism Naturalize Naturally Naturalness Nature Naturist Naturity Night Non-complying Notoriety Obtain Oculist Office Oleraceous Ontologist Ontology Optimism Order Organic Original Orthography Out Overcharge Pacific Papaverous Parable Paradoxical Part Partake Participate Participial Passively Pathic Pathology Pederasty Perfect Perishable Permanence Permanent Person Personal Pervert Pestilential Philopolemic Philosopher Philosophize Philosophy Phlegmonous Phosphoritic Photology Physic Physical Physically Physics Physiognomy Physiography Physiology Plague Planetary Plastic Play Plot Polverin Polypous Porism Positively Possible Pravity Precedence Precedent Preclude Premeditation Preoccupancy Preparation Preposterous Preposterousness Prescience Preternaturally Preternaturalness Principally Principle Proclivous Prodigal Prodigally Prodigy Product Promise Pronominal Propagation Provided Pry Psychology Publicist Pure Purulent Purview Quality Quartzy Quiddity Quit Radical Rally Ransomless Rather Rational Raven Reach Reality Receipt Reckoning Recognizance Recoil Redeem Redintegration Regenerating Relative Relator Relief Relish Rent Requisite Rest Reverence Review Reward Rheumatic Rheumy Righteousness Riotous Round Sale Salivous Salt Sandish Sanious Sarcolite Savor Scantiness Scene Scepticism Schismatical Scorbutic Scoriaceous Scrofulous Season Seasoning Secret Sedentary Seditious Seed Seen Selenitic Self-existence Self-existent Semi-arian Semi-primigenous Semi-protolite Seminality Sense Sentence Shadowy Shame Shift Shorlaceous Shrink Sigh Signature Silicious Similar Similitude Sin Siphilitic Slaty Smegmatic Smoky Socage Sodomy Soft Soften Softness Sophisticate Sophistry Sort Soul Sound Species Specifically Specious Specktacle Speculate Speculative Spinozism Spirit Spiritual Spirituality Spitefulness Spring Spunk Spy Stacte Stand Staple Start Statute Steatitic Stercoraceous Stigmatical Sting Stint Stretch String Student Study Subdue Sublime Sublimity Subordinate Substance Suit Sullenness Superangelic Supernatural Supernaturally Supernaturalness Supervive Supply Surliness Surprising Survey Susceptive Suspicious Swing Sympathy Symptom Symptomatically Tallowish Taste Temper Tendinous Term Terrene Test Theology Thereat Theurgy Thievish Tickle Tragic Train Transform Transiently Transmutability Transmutable Transmutably Transmutation Transmute Transmuted Transmuting Traverse Treason Treat Turn Twofold Ulcerous Unallied Uneasy Ungenial Universal Unkindly Unnatural Unnaturalness Unpoetically Unravel Unstimulated Untroubled Vacuist Vacuum Vale Varvels Vegetability Vegetable Vegetive Venialness Vernacular View Voluntarily Wake Wanton Warty Watcher Water Well-natured Wennish Wenny What Whatever Will Work Zoophyte
Abevacuation Absinthian Abstraction Abyssinians Acetous Acoustics Acquired Acquirement Acroatic Actual Adenology Admixtion Advantage Aerial Aeriform Agaty Aggregation Agnate Agreeable Akin Alteration Alternate Alumish Ambrosial Amphibious Amphibiousness Amphibolic Anacreontic Ancestor Anecdote Angelical Angelites Animal Anthropology Anthroposophy Aphthous Apollinarians Apostematous Appertain Approximate Aqueous Aretology Argillaceous Arian Art Asbestine Assay Assimilation Assort Astonishing Atlantica Augitic Augustinians Avenaceous Aversion Axiomatic Barbadoes-cherry Beastly Beautiful Beauty Being Bench Benignity Better Bezoar Bind Blasphemy Blood Bodily Bolary Bolt Bom Bottomry Bounteous Brief Briny Brutal Brutism Bugger Bullish But Cabirian Calcarious Cameo Camphor-tree Can Canon Celestify Cessation Charact Charm Chartulary Chattel Cheesy Chimistry Circumstantial Clavichord Clayish Clean Cleverness Closeness Cogent Cognation Coindication Colluctancy Common Compatible Complimentally Composition Compost Comprehension Compunctious Computation Conceive Conchologist Concord Concreate Condescension Confer Confine Conformable Confound Confusion Congener Congeneric Congenial Congeniality Congenialness Conglutinative Connatural Connaturality Connaturally Connaturalness Conscience Considering Constant Constrain Consubstantial Consubstantiality Consubstantiate Contraindication Contranatural Contrariety Converse Cornet Corpuscular Cosmology Could Counter-natural Course Creamy Credible Crime Crustaceous Crusty Damianists Dead Deadness Debt Declarative Deeply Default Degradation Deist Deity Demi-god Demi-natured Demonstration Depravation Derive Describe Describing Description Deviate Diagnostic Differ Difference Different Dignity Digressive Disbelief Discerner Disclaim Discourse Discriminate Display Dissent Dissimilar Dissolution Distant Dive Divine Divineness Divinity Docimastic Doctrinal Double-natured Dragons-blood Dropsical Dualistic Economy Electricity Elegance Elementariness Eliminate Emotion Enable Enamel Endowment Energy Engage Eon Epilogistic Equilibration Err Errableness Eruginous Erysipelatous Essence Essentially Ethereal Eutychian Eutychianism Examination Executive Exordium Exponential Eye Fabaceous Facility Factitious Faculty Faithfully Fantastic Farcical Farcy Fear Fee Fellow Feme-covert Fether Feverish Feverous Fiducial Fierceness Fistulous Flamy Flesh Fossilist Fulcrum Gasometry Gaudy Gazel Gelatinous Gemmeous Genially Genius Gentle Gerund Gift Gifted Glimpse Gluish Gnostic Godhead Goitrous Goodness Granitic Gummosity Gummous Gummy Gypseous Habit Hagish Hairy Harass Harsh Haughty Help Herby Hereby Hermetic Herpetic Heterogeneal Heterogeneous Heterogeneousness High Hippelaph History Hold Homogeneous Homogeneousness Homogeny Human Humanist Humanity Humanize Humor Humoral Humorist Hyperbolic Idolatrous Igneous Ill Ill-nature Imagination Imitate Imitation Immensurable Imposition Impossible Impostured Impotence Impotent Impracticability Improvable Inborn Incapacity Incarnation Incarnative Incident Incomprehensible Incongenial Incongeniality Indecorum Indelicacy Induce Infectious Inflammatory Inflexibility Inhabitant Inherit Inquisitiveness Insected Insectile Instrumentally Insufficiency Insuperable Integrity Intermediate Intrigue Intrinsically Investigate Irregular Irresistibility Jacobite Kimbo Kind Kindly Kindness Kindred Knit Land Lapidary Lapideous Lardaceous Law Lawless Lease Leporine Lesser Liberty Lie Life Ligamental Limited Lively Loamy Look Loricate Lothly Luciferians Lunged Mace Magical Magnetism Malignant Malignity Man Manhood Manlike Marcasitic Marrowish Martial Mateless Measure Mediator Meliorate Menilite Metallic Metaphysics Meteorous Method Miracle Misdemeanor Mislay Mixture Mold Monadic Monophysite Monstrosity Monstrous Monstrously Monstrousness Moral Morally Morbillous Mortality Mothery Mountebank Mucilaginous Munerary Muriatic Musk Mutable Native Nativeness Natural Naturalism Naturalize Naturally Naturalness Nature Naturist Naturity Night Non-complying Notoriety Obtain Oculist Office Oleraceous Ontologist Ontology Optimism Order Organic Original Orthography Out Overcharge Pacific Papaverous Parable Paradoxical Part Partake Participate Participial Passively Pathic Pathology Pederasty Perfect Perishable Permanence Permanent Person Personal Pervert Pestilential Philopolemic Philosopher Philosophize Philosophy Phlegmonous Phosphoritic Photology Physic Physical Physically Physics Physiognomy Physiography Physiology Plague Planetary Plastic Play Plot Polverin Polypous Porism Positively Possible Pravity Precedence Precedent Preclude Premeditation Preoccupancy Preparation Preposterous Preposterousness Prescience Preternaturally Preternaturalness Principally Principle Proclivous Prodigal Prodigally Prodigy Product Promise Pronominal Propagation Provided Pry Psychology Publicist Pure Purulent Purview Quality Quartzy Quiddity Quit Radical Rally Ransomless Rather Rational Raven Reach Reality Receipt Reckoning Recognizance Recoil Redeem Redintegration Regenerating Relative Relator Relief Relish Rent Requisite Rest Reverence Review Reward Rheumatic Rheumy Righteousness Riotous Round Sale Salivous Salt Sandish Sanious Sarcolite Savor Scantiness Scene Scepticism Schismatical Scorbutic Scoriaceous Scrofulous Season Seasoning Secret Sedentary Seditious Seed Seen Selenitic Self-existence Self-existent Semi-arian Semi-primigenous Semi-protolite Seminality Sense Sentence Shadowy Shame Shift Shorlaceous Shrink Sigh Signature Silicious Similar Similitude Sin Siphilitic Slaty Smegmatic Smoky Socage Sodomy Soft Soften Softness Sophisticate Sophistry Sort Soul Sound Species Specifically Specious Specktacle Speculate Speculative Spinozism Spirit Spiritual Spirituality Spitefulness Spring Spunk Spy Stacte Stand Staple Start Statute Steatitic Stercoraceous Stigmatical Sting Stint Stretch String Student Study Subdue Sublime Sublimity Subordinate Substance Suit Sullenness Superangelic Supernatural Supernaturally Supernaturalness Supervive Supply Surliness Surprising Survey Susceptive Suspicious Swing Sympathy Symptom Symptomatically Tallowish Taste Temper Tendinous Term Terrene Test Theology Thereat Theurgy Thievish Tickle Tragic Train Transform Transiently Transmutability Transmutable Transmutably Transmutation Transmute Transmuted Transmuting Traverse Treason Treat Turn Twofold Ulcerous Unallied Uneasy Ungenial Universal Unkindly Unnatural Unnaturalness Unpoetically Unravel Unstimulated Untroubled Vacuist Vacuum Vale Varvels Vegetability Vegetable Vegetive Venialness Vernacular View Voluntarily Wake Wanton Warty Watcher Water Well-natured Wennish Wenny What Whatever Will Work Zoophyte
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