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- English Word Natural Definition Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
- English Word Natural Definition Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
- English Word Natural Definition Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
- English Word Natural Definition Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
- English Word Natural Definition Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
- English Word Natural Definition 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.
- English Word Natural Definition 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.
- English Word Natural Definition Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
- English Word Natural Definition Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
- English Word Natural Definition Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
- English Word Natural Definition A native; an aboriginal.
- English Word Natural Definition Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
- English Word Natural Definition One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
- English Word Natural Definition 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.
- English Word Naturalism Definition A state of nature; conformity to nature.
- English Word Naturalism Definition 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.
- English Word Naturalist Definition One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.
- English Word Naturalist Definition One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.
- English Word Naturalistic Definition Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
- English Word Naturalistic Definition Closely resembling nature; realistic.