Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nature; especially, nature personified.
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Examples
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I’d choose a wool/bamboo and maybe nylon blend – trekking pro natura is a little different than the rest of the bamboo pack (made with bamboo fibers rather than bamboo pulp) and I think it is a very lovely yarn.
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But it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
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But it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
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But it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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The like exercise out of Dorica lingua may be also vsed, if a man take that litle booke of Plato, Timæus Locrus, de Animo et natura, which is written Dorice, and turne it into soch Greeke, as Plato vseth in other workes.
The Scholemaster 1570
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The sight of her "natura" made me go out and vomit into the canal.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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Quandoque enim 'natura' ipsam hominis substantiam significat, ut, cum dicimus:
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There is a large natura-zone around Chernobyl, some 40 miles in diameter, with no humans allowed for the next several hundred years.
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For the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who had so impressed Einstein, God and nature were as one deus sive natura, and the practice of doing math was tantamount to a quest for the divine.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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So what else are you supposed to think about when someone talks about “moon cycles, harvest, nature (natura), engery, strength, planet, body” in connection with a bottle of wine?
Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
jimithekewl commented on the word natura
In Latin, big ancestor of "nature". Stoics quasi worship.
February 4, 2009