naturalize 
sanction and form of law as a citi/.en or subject. 
SIT naturalisation, 
Then the best way for a foreigner to break your exclu- 
slvcneaa la to ho naturalized. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 988. 
4. TII i-ereive or adopt as native, natural, or 
vernacular: incorporate into ormako part and 
IIIII'IT! of a language; receive into the original 
.11 i-ommon stock: as, to naturalize a foreign 
word or expression. 
She niuat be foudniyant and pyramidal if theaeKrenrh 
adjeetivt'simiy tie iiittitiulized forthis one particular run T. 
in i <>. W. Holme*, Elsie Vernier, xxl. 
6. So to adapt to new conditions of life that 
those conditions shall appear to be native to 
the person or thing naturalized ; to introduce 
anil acclimatize or cause to thrive as if indige- 
nous: as, to naturalize a foreign plant or ani- 
nnil. [A plant thnt is naturalized la not merely habitu- 
ated to the climate, but grows without cultivation. V 
naturalized animal is notonly acclimatized, at an elephant 
or a tiger in captivity, hut shifts for itself and propagates, 
as rabbits In Australia or English sparrows In America. 1 
Living so amongst those Blacks, by time and cunning 
they seeme U> bee naturalized amongst them. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 48. 
Our melons, our peaches, our figs, our apricots, and 
cherries are strangers among us, Imported in different 
ages, and naturalized in our English gardens. 
Addison, The Royal Exchange. 
6. In nautical notation, to apply a natural or 
cancel (fl) to. 
II. intriiiis. 1. To explain phenomena by nat- 
ural laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. 
We see how far the mind of an age Is Infected by this 
naturalizing tendency ; let us note a few of the thousand 
and one forms in which it appears. 
Buthnell, Nature and the Supernat., I. 
2. To become like a native. 
I have naturalized here I In London] perfectly, and have 
been more kindly received than is good for my modesty to 
remember. Jeffrey. 
3. To become a citizen of another than one's 
native country. 
Also spelled naturalise. 
naturally (nat'u-ral-i),flrfr. 1. By nature; not 
by art or habft :' as, he was naturally eloquent. 
Fire, whose flame if ye marke it, is alwaies pointed, and 
n"i'n-nil,i by his forme coneta to clymbe. 
Puitenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 78. 
We naturally know what Is good, but mituralln pursue 
what is evil. Sir T. Broume, Rellgio Medici, i. 56. 
2. Spontaneously; without art or cultivation. 
For syth he wrought it not naturallye hut willingly [pur- 
posely], he wrought it not to the vttermost of his power, 
but with such degrees of goodnes as his hye pleasure 
lyked to lymit. Sir T. More, Works, p. 128. 
There is no place where wheat naturally grows. Johnson. 
3. Without affectation or artificiality; with ease 
or grace. 
That part 
Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd. 
Shale., T. of the S., Ind., i. 87. 
4. According to the usual course of things ; by 
an obvious consequence ; of course. 
Poverty naturally begets dependence. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xrvii. 
naturalness (nat'u-ral-nes), . 1. The state of 
being natural : as, naturalness of conduct. 
And to show the naturalness of monarchy, all the forms 
of government Insensibly partake of it, and slide Into it. 
South, Sermons, III. xii. 
2. Conformity to nature, truth, or reality ; ab- 
sence of artificiality, exaggeration, or affecta- 
tion : as. the naturalness of a person's conduct. 
To seek to he natural implies a consciousness that for- 
liiils all naturalness forever. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 205. 
nature (mi'tur), . and a. [< ME. nature, < OF. 
nature, V. nature = Sp. Pg. It. natura = OFries. 
nature = D. natuttr = A1LG. nature = OHG. na- 
tura, MHG. nature, natiurr, G. natur = Sw. Dan. 
natur, < L. ntitiirn, birth, origin, natural consti- 
tution orquality,< nanci, pp. natus, be born, ori- 
ginate: see MMOMfc] I. . 1. Birth; origin; 
parentage; original stock. 
"We arc broderen," quod he, "of on nature, 
Kyng Auferius my fader Is also." 
Qenerydet (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2;. 
All of one nature, of one substance bred. 
Shak., I Hen. IV., 1. 1. 11. 
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the <;<-TI 
tiles. Gal. ii. 15. 
2. The forces or processes of the material world, 
conceived of as an agency intermediate between 
the Creator and the world, producing all organ- 
isms and preserving the regular order of things: 
as, in the old dictum. "HO hire abhors a vacuum." 
In this sense nature is often personified. 
And there is in this business more than nature 
Was ever conduct of. Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 248. 
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Thou, nature, art my goddess : to thy law 
My services are |M>UIII|. Shak., Lear, i. i 1. 
Nature is the last of all causes that fabricate tin 
jMireal and sensible world, and the utmost hound of hum 
poreal suhstam. . WIN. h. I,, -ing full of reasonsand |w 
era, orders and preside! over all mundane attain. 
/'rorfw(tr. by Cudworth), I'miiiii. in 'I'imifiim, I. 
Wherefore, since neither all things are produced foitn 
itously, or by the ungulded mechanism of mutter. n<'i <"! 
himself may reasonably be t houvht to do all things in 
dlately and miraculously, it may well he concluded that 
there Is a plastic nature under him, which aa an Inferior 
and subordinate Instrument doth drudgingly execute that 
part of his providence which consists in the regular and 
orderly motion of matter; yet so as that there Is also be- 
sides this a higher providence to be acknowledged, which, 
presiding over it, doth ..ften supply the defects of It, and 
sometimes overrule It ; forasmuch as this plastic nature 
cannot act electfvely nor with discretion. 
Cudimrth, Intellectual System, 1. 3. 
\ature never did betray 
The heart that loved her. 
Wordnmrth. Tlntern Abbey. 
3. The metaphysical principle oflife ; the pow- 
er of growth ; that wnich causes organisms to 
develop each in its predeterminate way. Arla- 
totle defines nature as the principle of motion in those 
things that move themselves, meaning by motion espe- 
cially generation and corruption. Inasmuch aa the most 
striking characteristic of growth is Its regularity, nature Is 
also conceived by Aristotle as the principle of Inward ne- 
cessity, as opposed to constraint on the one hand and to 
chance or freedom on the other. Hence nature is In lit- 
erature frequently contrasted with .fate and with ampul- 
rion, aa well as with/rfw And free elettvm. 
There are In sublunary bodies both constant tendencies 
and variable tendencies. The constant Aristotle calls na- 
ture, which always aspires to good, or to perpetual reno- 
vation of forms as perfect as may be, though impeded in 
this work by adverse Influences, and therefore never pro- 
ducing any thing but individuals comparatively defective 
and sure to perish. The variable he calls spontaneity and 
chance, forming an Independent agency Inseparably ac- 
companying nature always modifying, distorting, frus- 
trating the full purposes of nature. Moreover, the differ- 
ent natural agencies often interfere with each other, while 
the irregular tendency interferes with them all. So far as 
Mature acts In each of her distinct agencies, the phenomena 
before us are regular and predictable: all that is uniform, 
and all that, without being quite uniform, recurs usually 
or frequently, Is her work. But, besides and along with na- 
ture, there Is the agency of chance and spontaneity, which 
Is essentially Irregular and unpredictable. 
Omte, Aristotle, Iv. 
CM. Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune. 
. . . Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest, 
and those that she makes honest she makes very Ill-fa- 
vouredly. 
Rot. Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to -Vir- 
twre's : Fortune reigns In the gifts of the world, not In the 
lineaments of Xature. Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 44. 
Yet had the number of her days 
Been as complete as was her praise, 
Xature and Fate had had no strife 
In giving limit to her life. 
Milton, Epitaph on Marchioness of Winchester. 1. 13. 
4f. Cause ; occasion ; that which produces any- 
thing. 
The nature of his great offence is dead. 
Shak., All's Well, v. S. ->3. 
5. The material and spiritual universe, as dis- 
tinguished from the Creator; the system of 
things of which man forms a part ; creation, es- 
pecially that part of it which more immediately 
surrounds man and affects his senses, as moun- 
tains, seas, rivers, woods, etc.: as, the beauties 
of nature; in a restricted sense, whatever is 
produced without artificial aid, and exists un- 
changed by man, and is ths opposed to art. 
All things are artificial : for Jfahm is the art of God. 
Sir T. llroirne, Religlo Medici, I. 16. 
He needed not the spectacles of books to read Xature ; 
he looked inwards, and found her there. 
Dryden, Essay on Dram. Poesy. 
Xature is that world of substance whose laws are laws 
of cause and effect, and whose events transpire, in orderly 
succession, under those laws. 
Buihnell, Nature and the Supernat., p. 43. 
Nature, In the common sense, refers to essences un- 
changed by man : space, the air, the river, the leaf. 
Einerton, Nature, p. 7. 
Xature in the alwtract is the aggregate of the powers 
and properties of all things. Xature means the sum of all 
phenomena, together with thecauses which produce them; 
im hiding not only all that happens, hut all that Is capable 
of happening ; the unused capabilities of causes being as 
much a part of the Idea of nature as those which take ef- 
fect. J. s. Mai. 
Hence 6. That which is conformed to nature 
or to truth and reality, as distinguished from 
that which is artificial, forced, conventional, or 
remote from actual experience ; naturalness. 
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the 
modesty of nature: for anything so overdone (s from the 
purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, 
was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. 
Shak.. Hamlet, ill. 2. 
Only nature can please thoae tastes which are unpreju- 
diced and refined. Addinnn. 
7. Inherent constitution, property, or quality : 
essential character, quality, or kind : the quali- 
nature 
ties or attributes whieli enn-titute a being or 
thing what it is, and distinguish it from all 
others; also, kind; sort; species: category: as, 
the nature of the soul ; the divine u/iliin .- it is 
the nature of fire to burn; the compensation 
was in the nalnri' of a 
Lyve thou snleyn. wennia oorupcioun : 
For no ("i - Is of lak of thy nature. 
Chaueer, I'arliament of Fowla, I. 615. 
Things rank and gross In nature. 
Shak., Hamlet. !._'. l.'i. 
I wish my yeara 
Were fit to do you service in a nature 
That might become a gentleman. 
FleMirr, Spanish Curate, I. I. 
onely this Is certaine. that many regions lying In the 
same latitude afford Mines very rich of divers natura. 
Capt. John Smith. Works, I. 12f.. 
They [the Jews! apprehended the Crown of Thorns which 
was put upon our Saviour's heaxl was the fittest represen 
tatlon of the nature of his Kingdom. 
StiUiivjjIret, Sermons, I. vlii 
The nature of her (Catherine Srdley's] Influence over 
James is not easily to be explained. 
Maeaulau. Hist. Eng., vi. 
8. An original, wild, undomest Seated condition, 
as of an animal or a plant; also, the primitive 
condition of man antecedent to institutions, 
especially to political institutions: as, to live 
in a state of nature. 
That the condition of mere nature that Is to say, of ab- 
solute liberty, such as Is theirs that are neither sovereigns 
nor subjects, Is anarchy and the condition of war ; that the 
precepts by which men are guided to avoid that condition 
are the laws of nature; thatacommonwealth without sov- 
ereign power Is hut a word without substance, and cannot 
stand; that subjects owe to sovereigns simple oliedlence 
In all things In which their obedience la not repugnant to 
the laws of Cod, I have sufficiently proved. 
I/ngbet, Leviathan. II. 31. 
9. The primitive aboriginal instincts, qualities, 
and tendencies common to mankind of all races 
and in all ages, as unchanged or uninfluenced 
by civilization; especially, the instinctive or 
spontaneous sense of justice, benevolence, af- 
fection, self-preservation, love of show, etc., 
common to mankind ; naturalness of thought, 
feeling, or action ; humanity. 
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by 
nature the things contained in the law, these, having not 
the law, are a law unto themselves. Rom. ii. 14. 
Rot. But, to Orlando : did he leave him there, 
Food to the sucked and hungry lioness? 
Oft. Twice did he turn his back and purposed so ; 
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge, 
And nature, stronger than his just occasion, 
Made him give battle to the lioness. 
Shak., As you I.Ike it, iv. 3. 180. 
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, 
That all, with one consent, praise new-born gawds. 
Shak., T. and C., ill. S. 175. 
If thou hast nature in thce. bear it not. 
Shak.. Hamlet, I. 5. 81. 
Oh mother, do not lose your name! forget not 
The touch of nature In you, tenderness ! 
lleau. and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, v. 2. 
10. The physical or moral constitution of man; 
physical or moral being; the personality. 
As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope by the immoderate use 
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, 
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, 
A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die. 
Shak., M. for M., I. 2. 132. 
In swinish sleep 
Their drenched natures He as in a death. 
Shak.. Macbeth, I. 7. 68. 
Thus have they made profane that nature which God 
hath not only cleans'd, but Christ also hath assum'd. 
Milton, Church-Government, IL 8. 
Tlr'd nature's sweet restorer, bnlmy sleep ! 
Young, Night Thoughts, L 1. 
11. Inborn or innate character, disposition, or 
inclination ; inherent bent or disposition ; indi- 
vidual constitution or temperament ; inbred or 
natural endowments, as opposed to acquired ; 
hence, by metonymy, a person so endowed : as, 
we instinctively look up to a superior nature. 
His nature Is too noble for the world; 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident. 
Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart 's his month : 
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent. 
Shak., Cor., ill. 1. 255. 
This can only succeed according to the nature and man- 
ners of the person they court, or solicit. 
Karon, Moral Fables, Iv.. F.ipl. 
It Is your nature to have all men slaves 
To you, but yon acknowledging to none. 
R. Joruon, Sejanus. Ill 1. 
12. The vital powers of man; vitality; vital 
force; life; also, natural course of life; life- 
time. 
And the most part of hem dyen with onten Syknesae, 
whan nature faylethe hem for elde. 
Manderillf, Travels, p. 288. 
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 
Are burnt and purged away. Shak.. Hamlet. i. 5. 12. 
