With strongnatural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces.
A South African Uber driver is causing excitement with his impressive operatic singing but, however muchnatural talent you have, it is a long road to La Scala.
Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.[from 14th c.]
The species will be under threat if itsnatural habitat is destroyed.
What can be morenatural or more moving than the circumſtances in which he deſcribes the behaviour of thoſe women who had loſt their huſbands on this fatal day ?
Formed by nature; notmanufactured or created by artificial processes.[from 15th c.]
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously thatnatural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
Pertaining todeath brought about by disease or old age, rather than by violence, accident etc.[from 16th c.]
Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to anatural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February.
Having aninnate ability to fill a given role or profession, or display a specified character.[from 16th c.]
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, anatural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
1816 June –1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley],Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818,→OCLC:
I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to mynatural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.
Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock,illegitimate.[from 15th c.]
1790,Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, inJuvenilia:
[M]y Mother was thenatural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl[…].
“What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel’s, my dear; a very near relation. We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.” Then lowering her voice a little, she said to Elinor, “She is hisnatural daughter.” “Indeed!” “Oh! yes; and as like him as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will leave her all his fortune.” Lady Middleton’s delicacy was shocked; an in order to banish so improper a subject as the mention of anatural daughter, she actually took the trouble of saying something herself about the weather.
1872,George Eliot,Middlemarch, Book III, chapter 26:
Mrs Taft[…] had got it into her head that Mr Lydgate was anatural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.
1990,Roy Porter,English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published1991, page264:
Dr Erasmus Darwin set up his two illegitimate daughters as the governesses of a school, noting thatnatural children often had happier (because less pretentious) upbringings than legitimate.
Related by birth;genetically related.[from 16th c.]
1843,John Henry Newman, “The Kingdom of the Saints”, inParochial Sermons, 4th edition, volume II, J. G. F. & J. Rivington,pages264–5:
The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from hisnatural friends.
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(now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.[from 16th c.]
1615, Ralph Hamor,A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published1957, page 3:
I coniecture and assure my selfe that yee cannot be ignorant by what meanes this peace hath bin thus happily both for our proceedings and the welfare of theNaturals concluded[…]
(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by anaccidental.[from 17th c.]
(music) The symbol♮ used to indicate such a natural note.
One with an innate talent at or for something.[from 18th c.]
He's anatural on the saxophone.
(uncountable) An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.[from 20th c.]
natural:
(archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
Why is not this better now, then groning for Loue, now art thou ſociable, now art thouRomeo : now art thou what thou art, by Art as well as by Nature, for this driueling Loue is like a greatNaturall, that runs lolling vp and downe to hid hisbable in a hole.
1633,A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, page30:
A Noble-man tooke a great liking to anaturall, and had covenanted with his parents to take him from them and to keepe him for his pleaſure, and demanding of theIdeot if he would ſerve him, he made him this anſwere, My Father ſaith he, got me to be his foole of my mother, now if you long to have a foole; go & without doubt you may get one of your owne wife.
1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XI, inShrewsbury:
"Why you are anatural! I thought you had learned something by this time.
2002, Maxine Leeds Craig,Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race, Oxford University Press,→ISBN:
Chinosole, who stopped straightening her hair and cut it into anatural while at a predominantly white college, was quite uneasy with the style
2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
I wanted to do it for so long — throw out my chemically relaxed hair for anatural.
2015, Carmen M. Cusack,HAIR AND JUSTICE: Sociolegal Significance of Hair in Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law, and Public Policy, Charles C Thomas Publisher,→ISBN, page155:
Third, it insinuates that black afro hairstyles (e.g.,naturals) relate to African cultural heritage, which is largely untrue.
1999 March 2, Mathew Alphonse Coppola, “Please rate these women...”, inrec.arts.movies.erotica[3] (Usenet):
> Nina Hartley ¶ 2, unattractive, square "steriod[sic] jaw", nice ass, FAKE breasts or smallnaturals, great sexual presence[…] > Marilyn Monroe ¶ 7, decent body, mediumNATURALS, stereotypical "godess[sic]/playboy" blond/blue doesn't usually work for me, good sexual presence
2002 August 19, Jon Eric, “Great Tit Debate.......”, inrec.arts.movies.erotica[4] (Usenet):
She's [Eva/Mercedes] a brunette European with a curvy natural body with nice tits. For that matter, there are lots of women in Rocco [Siffredi]'s vids with nicenaturals.
2010 March 2, Miles Williams Mathis, “The Sexiest Women of the Screen: A Thinking Man's List”, inmileswmathis.com[5] (personal website), archived fromthe original on23 September 2010:
It isn't the bignaturals on a little torso that do it for me, since that is not my thing.
2016 October 26, Stephen Falk, “The Seventh Layer”, in Wendey Stanzler, director,You're the Worst, season 3, episode 9 (television production), spoken by Vernon Barbara (Todd Robert Anderson), via FXX:
I’m really a good person with a good heart and I believe there is someone out there who will love me. Hopefully a Mexican hottie with bignaturals.
