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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Conformed to truth or reality |
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Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or
exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture,
tone, etc. |
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Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according
to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is
natural. |
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Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to
one's position; not unnatural in feelings. |
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Connected by the ties of consanguinity. |
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Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock;
illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat,
in distinction from instrumental music. |
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Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a
sharp for its signature, as the key of C major. |
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Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by
easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original
key. |
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A native; an aboriginal. |
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Natural gifts, impulses, etc. |
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One born without the usual powers of reason or
understanding; an idiot. |
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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. |
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