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Natural [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power. Thus we speak of 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 beauty. In this sense, natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.

2. According to the stated course of things. Poverty and shame are the natural consequences of certain vices.

3. Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature. The gestures of the orator are natural

4. According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.

5. Consonant to nature.

6. Fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves.

7. Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual. The love of pleasure is natural ; the love of study is usually habitual or acquired.

8. Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.

9. Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.

10. Tender; affectionate by nature.

11. Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.

12. What can be more natural than the circumstances of the behavior of those women who had lost heir husbands on this fatal day?

13. Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.

14. Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.

15. Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.

16. A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.

17. NATURAL history, in its most extensive sense, is the description of whatever is created, or of the whole universe, including the heavens and the earth, and all the productions of the earth. But more generally, natural history is limited to a description of the earth and its productions, including zoology, botany, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, _ c.

18. NATURAL philosophy, the science of material natural bodies, of their properties, powers and motions. It is distinguished from intellectual and moral philosophy, which respect the mind or understanding of man and the qualities of actions. natural philosophy comprehends mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, chimistry, magnetism, eletricity, galvanism, _ c.

Natural [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An idiot; one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding. This is probably elliptical for natural fool.

2. A native; an original inhabitant.

3. Gift of nature; natural quality.

Natural [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Conformed to truth or reality

5. Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

6. Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

7. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

8. Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

9. Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

13. Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

14. Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

Natural [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A native; an aboriginal.

2. Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

3. One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

4. 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.

Natural Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

ψυχικὸς, is a term that frequently occurs in the apostolic writings: The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned,” 1 Cor. ii, 14. Here it is plain that by the natural man,” is not meant a person devoid of natural judgment, reason, or conscience, in which sense the expression is often used among men. Nor does it signify one who is entirely governed by his fleshly appetites, or what the world calls a voluptuary, or sensualist. Neither does it signify merely a man in the rude state of nature, whose faculties have not been cultivated by learning and study, and polished by an intercourse with society. The Apostle manifestly takes his natural man” from among such as the world hold in the highest repute for their natural parts, their learning, and their religion. He selects him from among the philosophers of Greece, who sought after wisdom, and from among the Jewish scribes, who were instructed in the revealed law of God, 1 Cor. i, 22, 23. These are the persons whom he terms the wise, the scribes, the disputers of this world--men to whom the Gospel was a stumbling block and foolishness, 1 Cor. i, 20, 23. The natural man is here evidently opposed to, ὁ πνευματικὸς, him that is spiritual,” 1 Cor. ii, 15, even as the natural body which we derive from Adam is opposed to the spiritual body which believers will receive from Christ at the resurrection, according to 1 Cor. xv, 44, 45. Now the spiritual man is one who has the Spirit of Christ dwelling in him, Rom. viii, 9, not merely in the way of miraculous gifts, as some have imagined, (for these were peculiar to the first age of the Christian church, and even then not common to all the saints, nor inseparably connected ...

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Naturalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Mere state of nature.

Naturalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A state of nature; conformity to nature.

2. 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.

Naturalist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that studies natural history and philosophy or physics; one that is versed in natural history or philosophy. It is more generally applied to one that is versed in natural history.

Naturalist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.

Naturalistic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

2. Closely resembling nature; realistic.

Naturality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Nature; naturalness.

Naturalization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen. naturalization in Great Britain is only by act of parliament. In the United States, it is by act of Congress, vesting certain tribunals with the power.

Naturalization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Naturalization Encyclopedia Britannica

NATURALIZATION. See Alien.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 248
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Naturalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To confer on an alien the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen; to adopt foreigners into a nation or state, and place them in the condition of natural born subjects.

2. To make natural; to render easy and familiar by custom and habit; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

3. To adapt; to make suitable; to acclimate; as, to naturalize one to a climate.

4. To receive or adopt as native, natural or vernacular; to make our own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

5. To accustom; to habituate; as, to naturalize the vine to a cold climate.

Naturalize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To become as if native.

2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

Naturalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

2. 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.

3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.

Naturalized [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Invested with the privileges of natives; rendered easy and familiar; adapted to a climate; acclimated; received as native.

Naturalized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Naturalizing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Vesting with the rights of native subjects; making easy; acclimating; adopting.

Naturalizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Naturally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. According to nature; by the force or impulse of nature; not by art or habit. We are naturally prone to evil.

2. According to nature; without affectation; with just representation; according to life.

3. According to the usual course of things; as, the effect or consequence naturally follows.

4. Spontaneously; without art or cultivation. Every plant must have grown naturally in some place or other.

Naturally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

Naturalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being given or produced by nature; as the naturalness of desire.

2. Conformity to nature, or to truth and reality; not affectation ; as the naturalness of the eyebrows.

Naturalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

Naturals [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

plural Among physicians, whatever belongs naturally to an animal; opposed to non-naturals. [ It may perhaps be sometimes used in the singular.]

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14 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “natural”

Numbers 16:29

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

Numbers 19:16

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Deuteronomy 34:7

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:27

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:31

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Romans 11:21

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

Romans 11:24

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 15:44

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:46

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Philippians 2:20

For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.

2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

James 1:23

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

Jude 1:10

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.