|
|
Definition of By nature
1. Adverb. Through inherent nature. "He was naturally lazy"
By Nature Pictures
Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: By Nature Images
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Nature
Literary usage of By nature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"28, §§5-12). 18. ' Moral goodness or evil,' Locke concludes, ' is the Their object
is pleasure, but pleasure given not by nature but bylaw. ..."
2. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"True rest for muscles, intended by nature for action, is in orderly action; just
as true rest for the lungs is the normal rhythm of respiration taken in ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As we kave seen, man is by nature entitled to beatitude, ... But the knowledge
to which man is entitled by nature is not an immediate vision, ..."
4. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... all but a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, 885 More to the part
finifter, from me drawn, Well if thrown out, ..."
5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Guardian by Nature. — Guardian by nature is the father, and, ... (i) Tt was
doubted for some time in the books, whether the guardian by nature was entitled ..."
Other Resources Relating to: By nature
