nationalize 
Rome again and again nationalised large tracts of land, 
and attain and again made provision for the poor to occupy 
it. Nineteenth. Century, XIX. 76. 
Also spelled nationalise. 
nationalizer (nash'on-al-i-zer), . [< nation- 
alize + -cr 1 .] One'wtib advocates nationali- 
zation, as of land, railways, etc. Also spelled 
nationaliser. 
Sir Rowland Hill and the English railway nationalize 
proposed that the state should own the lines, but that the 
companies should continue to work them. 
Contemporary liev., LIV. 884. 
nationally (nash'on-al-i), adv. In a national 
manner or way; with" regard to the nation; as 
a whole nation. 
The Jews . . . being nationally espoused to God by cov- 
enant. South, Sermons, II. i. 
nationalness (nash'on-al-nes), n. The state of 
being national. Johnson. 
nationhood (na'shon-hud), . [< nation + 
Jiood.] The state of being a nation. 
Toward growth into nationhood. 
The Century, XXXI. 407. 
natis (na'tis), .; pi. nates (-tez). [L. nates, 
pi., the buttocks: see nates.'} In anat., one of 
the buttocks ; either half of the gluteal region : 
commonly in the plural. See nates. 
native (na'tiv), a. and n. [= F. natif, naif = 
Pr. natiu, nadiu = Sp. Pg. It. native, \ L. nati- 
mis, born, inborn, innate, natural, native, < 
nasci, pp. natus, be born : see nascent. Cf. naif, 
naive.] I. a. If. Coming into existence by 
birth; having an origin ; born. 
Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, ris- 
ing and vanishing again in long periods of time. 
Cvdworth, Intellectual System, I. iii. 23. 
2f. Born of one's self; own. 
There is but one amongst the f oure 
That is my native sonne. 
Gentleman in Thracia (Child's Ballads, VIII. 162). 
3. Of or pertaining to one by birth, or the 
place or circumstances of one's birth: as, na- 
tive land; wattle language. 
Ere the King my feir countrie get, 
This land that 's nativest to me, 
Mony o' his nobilis sail be cauld. 
Sang of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 26). 
The language I have learn'd these forty years, 
My native English, now I must forgo. 
Shah., Rich. II., i. 8. 160. 
But still for us his native skies 
The pitying Angel leaves. 
Whittier, Lay of Old Time. 
4. Of indigenous origin or growth ; not exotic 
or of foreign origin or production ; belonging 
by birth: as, the native grapes of the South ; a 
native name. 
Ere her native king 
Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. 
Shak., Rich. II., iii. 2. 25. 
They feigned it adventitious, not native. 
Bacon, Fables, xi., Expl. 
Our music, in its most enchanting form, is purely na- 
tive, independent of any Saxon, Danish, or Norman aid. 
(/Curry, Anc. Irish, II. xxxviii. 
Bayard Taylor always considered himself native to the 
East, and it was with great delight that in 1861 he found 
himself on the banks of the Nile. JBncyc. Brit,, XXIII. 91. 
[With reference to names or other words, native is espe- 
cially used to designate a name or word indigenous in a 
country or among a people beyond the ordinary pale of 
Anglo-Saxon or European civilization ; thus, the native 
products and customs of the barbarous tribes of Africa or 
Australia or of the imperfectly civilized peoples of India, 
Arabia, etc., have "native names" which are commonly so 
referred to when it is inconvenient or impossible to give a 
precise designation of the language, or etymological history 
of the word, concerned. In this dictionary, in the etymol- 
ogies, " native name " means a name used (and usually ori- 
ginating) in the country or among the people indicated in 
the definition or otherwise.] 
5. Connected by birth; hence, closely related; 
near. 
To join like likes and kiss like native things. 
Shak., All's Well, i.1. 23a 
There's consolation when a friend laments us, but when 
a parent grieves, the anguish is too native. 
Steele, Lying Lover, v. 1. 
6. Being the place of birth (of). [Bare.] 
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence, native to famous wits 
Or hospitable. Milton, P. R., iv. 241. 
7. Conferred by birth; inborn; hereditary; 
not artificial or acquired ; natural. 
I love nothing in you more than your innocence ; you 
retain so native a simplicity. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
High minds, of native pride and force, 
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse ! 
Scott, Marmion, iii. 13. 
It is not what a poet takes, but what he makes out of 
what he has taken, that shows what native force is in him. 
Lmvell, Among my Books, 2d ser. , p. 154. 
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8. Occurring in nature pure or uncombined with 
other substances : said of mineral products, and 
especially of the metals: as, native mercury; 
native copper: also used to describe any min- 
eral occurring in nature in distinction from the 
corresponding substance formed artificially: 
as, galena occurs native and also as a furnace 
product Native American party. See American. 
Native bear, native sloth. Same as koala. Native 
bread, a fungus, MyWta Australia, used by the natives of 
Australia as a sort of bread. It is often several inches in 
diameter, and when dry looks like a hard, compacted lump 
of sago. Native cat, the spotted dasyure of Australia. 
Native cinnabar, cod, devil, mercury, trooper, 
etc. See the nouns. Native companion, the large gray 
crane of Australia. = Syn. 7. Natal, Native, Natural. Natal 
has the narrow meaning of belonging to the event of one's 
birth ; hence it is chiefly used with such words as day, hour, 
star. Native means conferred by birth : as, native genius ; 
or, belonging by birth or origin : as, native place, country, 
language. Natural applies to that which is by nature, as 
opposed to the work of art. Native eloquence is opposed 
to that which is acquired ; natural eloquence to that which 
is elaborated by rules. 4. Indigenous, etc. See original. 
H. n. 1. One born in a certain place or coun- 
try, a person or thing which derives its origin 
from a specified place or country. 
Well hast thou known proud Troy's perfidious land, 
And well her natives merit at thy hand ! 
Pope, Iliad, vL 70. 
That shadowy realm where hope is a native. 
D. 0. Mitchell, Reveries of a Bachelor. 
[Any person born in a given country is a native of it; but 
the tern), with reference to a country, is naturally most 
used by foreigners, to whom as discoverers, explorers, tra- 
velers, writers, etc., "the natives" are the aboriginal in- 
habitants, until in the progress of settlement and coloniza- 
tion the native-born colonists claim or receive the name of 
"native "also.] 
2f. In feudal times, one born a serf or villein, 
as distinguished from a person who had become 
so in any other way. 
So that neither we nor our successors for the future 
shall be able to claim any right in the aforesaid [native] 
on account of his nativity (i. e., being in the condition of 
a native, or slave, of Whalley), saving to us our right and 
challenge with respect to any others our natives. 
Sir Gregory de Norbury, Abbot of Whalley, who died in 
[1309, quoted in Baines's Hist Lancashire, II. 9, note. 
By acts of emancipation or manumission the native was 
made a freeman, even though with the disabilities he lost 
the privileges of maintenance which he could claim on the 
land of his lord. Stubbs, Const. Hist,, 495. 
3. In astral., a person born under that aspect 
of the stars which is under consideration. 
The length of time in which the apheta and anareta, as 
posited in each respective figure of a nativity, will be in 
forming a conjunction, or coming together in the same 
point of the heavens, is the precise length of the native's 
life. Sibley, Astrology, p. 464. 
4. [cap.] In U. 8. politics, same as Know- 
nothing. See Americanpartij, under American. 
5. An oyster raised in a bed other than the 
natural one. 
Oysters raised in artificial beds are called natives, and are 
considered very superior to those which are dredged from 
the natural beds. Lib. Universal Knowledge, XI. 159. 
His eyes rested on a newly-opened oyster-shop on a mag- 
nificent scale, with natives laid, one deep, in circular mar- 
ble basins in the windows. 
Dickens, Sketches, Characters, vii. 
6f. Natural source; origin. 
Th' Accusation 
Which they haue often made against the Senate, 
All cause vnborne, could neuer be the Natiue 
Of our so f ranke Donation. 
Sha/c., Cor. (folio 1623X iii. 1. 129. 
[Some modern editions read here motive.] 
native-born (na'tiv -born), a. Born in the 
country specified or understood. 
Surely no native-born woman loves her country better 
than I love America. The Century, XXXVIII. 981. 
natively (na'tiv-li), adv. By birth; naturally; 
origin all}'. 
We wear hair which is not natively our own. 
Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 77. 
natiyeness (na'tiv-nes), . The state of being 
native, or produced by nature ; naturalness. 
nativism (na'tiv-izm), n. [< native + -.] 1. 
In pliilos., the doctrine of innate ideas; the 
view that sensation is not the sole source of 
knowledge, but that the mind possesses ideas 
or at least forms of thought and perception 
that are innate. See innate. 
The author makes an exception in favor of the Stoics, 
who, he holds, combined the truth that is in sensational- 
ism with the truth that is in nativism. Mind, XII. 628. 
2. [cap.'] In U. S. politics, the program of the 
Native American party (which see, under Amer- 
ican). 
But the baleful Nativism which had just broken out 
[1844] in the great cities, and had been made the occasion 
of riot, devastation, and bloodshed in Philadelphia, had 
alarmed the foreign-born population. 
//. Greeley, Amer. Conflict, I. 168. 
natroborocalcite 
nativist (na'tiv-ist), n. [< native + -ist.] 1. 
In pliilos., one who maintains the doctrine of 
innate ideas. 2. [cap.'} In U. S. politics : (a) 
One who supports or favors the program of the 
Native American party. (6) One who supports 
the program of the American party. See Amer- 
ican. 
Fillmore was in Europe when he was chosen by the 
Nativists of Philadelphia as their standard-bearer. 
H. von Hoist, Const. Hist, (trans.), V. 486. 
nativistic (na-ti-vis'tik), a. [< nativist + -ic.] 
In pliilos., of or pertaining to nativism or the 
nativists. 
Thus the nativistic school of explanation is replaced by 
the "empiristic " school, as Helmholtz calls it. 
Science, VI. 309. 
nativity (na-tiv'i-ti), .; pi. nativities (-tiz). 
[< ME. nativite, <"OF. nativete, F. nativite, also 
naivete (see naivete, naivety), = Sp. natividad = 
Pg. natividade = It. nativita, < L. nativita(t-)s, 
birth, , < nativus, born : see native.'] 1. The fact 
of being born ; birth. 
At thy nativity, a glorious quire 
Of angels, in the fields of Bethlehem, sung 
To shepherds, watching at their folds by night. 
Milton, P. R., i. 242. 
Christmas has come once more the day devoted by the 
large majority of Christians to the commemoration of the 
Nativity of the Saviour. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 215. 
2. The circumstances attending birth, as time, 
place, and surroundings. 
They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in na- 
tivity, chance, or death. Shak., M. W. of W., v. 1. 4. 
A Prince born for the Good of Christendom, if a Bar in 
his Nativity had not hindred it. Baker, Chronicles, p. 67. 
3. In particular, the birth of Christ; hence, (a) 
the festival commemorating the birth of Christ; 
Christmas; (6) a picture representing the birth 
of Christ: as, the Nativity of Perugino in the 
hall of the Cambio at Perugia. 4. In feudal 
times, the condition of servitude or villeinage. 
See native, n., 2. 
The different ranks of the bondmen or unfree class [in 
Scotland] have been preserved in the code of laws termed 
"quoniam attachamenta." They are there termed native 
men (nativi), and we are told that there are several kinds 
of nativity or Bondage (nativitatis sive bondagii). 
Quoted in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 334. 
5. In astrol., a scheme or figure of the heavens, 
particularly of the twelve houses, at the mo- 
ment when a person was born ; a horoscope. 
As men which judge nativities consider not single stars, 
but the aspects, the concurrence and posture of them, so 
in this, though no particular past arrest me or divert me, 
yet all seems remarkable and enormous. 
Donne, Letters, cxxiv. 
Domicile of nativity. See domicile, 2. Feast of the 
Nativity of Christ, Christmas. Nativity of a saint, 
in titles of church festivals, the day of a saint's physical 
death, regarded as his birth into a higher life. In the case 
of the Virgin Mary and St. John Baptist, however, the day 
of physical birth is meant, as in the Nativity of Christ- 
Nativity Of St. John Baptist, in the Roman Catholic, 
the Greek, and the Anglican Church, a festival observed on 
June 24th, in honor of the birth of St. John the Baptist- 
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Roman 
Catholic and in the Greek Church, and also in the Anglican 
Calendar, a festival observed on September 8th, in com- 
memoration of the birth of the Virgin Mary. To cast a 
nativity, in astrol., to draw out a scheme of the heavens at 
the moment of birth, and calculate according to rules the 
future influence of certain stars upon the person then born. 
nativity-piet (na-tiv'i-ti-pi), n. A Christmas 
pie. Halliwell. 
And will drop you forth a libel, or a sanctified lie, 
Betwixt every spoonful of a nativity-pie. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 
nat. phil. An abbreviation of natural philoso- 
pliy : so used in this work. 
Natricidse (na-tris'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Natrix 
(-ic-) + -idee."] A family of colubrine snakes, 
named from the genus Natrix : now merged in 
Colubridte. 
Natricinae (nat-ri-si'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Natrix 
(-ic-) + -inai.] A subfamily of Colubridce, typi- 
fied by the genus Natrix. It includes those having 
the head distinct, the body and tail moderately elongate, 
and the teeth ungrooved and not longer in front, as the 
black-snakes of the United States (Natrix or Scotophis and 
Bascanion) and numerous others. 
natricine (nat'ri-sin), a. Of or pertaining to 
the Natricinai. 
Natrix (na'triks), n. [NL., < L. natrix, a water- 
snake, < nature, swim: see natatit.] 1. A ge- 
nus of colubrine snakes to which various limits 
have been given, (a) By Laurent! (1768) it was used for 
a large assemblage now dissociated among many genera. 
(6) By Merrem it was used for species now combined un- 
der the genus Tropidonotits, including the T. natrix of Eu- 
rope and allied ones, (c) By Cope it was limited to the 
genus usually called Srvtnpliix, represented by the pilot 
black-snake of the United States. 
2. [7. c.] A snake of this genus. 
natroborocalcite (iia-tro-bo-ro-kal'sit), n. [< 
natron + lioron + calcite.] Same as nlexite. 
