单词 | natural order |
释义 | natural ordern. 1. The order presumed to be present in the constitution of matter and the operation of forces in nature and society. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > [noun] natural order1531 balance of nature1909 ecosystem1935 biosystem1942 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > nature > natural order or course of nature i-cundeeOE course of kindc1325 course of nature1511–12 natural order1531 the natural1765 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. sig. Av That shall sone appere vnto them that wyll be satisfied either with autorite, or with naturall ordre and example. 1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 91 The naturall order being broken, the Lappets of it [sc. the liuer] did appeare out of their owne place. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. iv. 261 To what Purpose should they so violently and distortedly pervert the natural Order? 1697 M. Earbery Deism Examined & Confuted 18 The one [sc. Human Reason] is founded on the Natural Order of things, and therefore subject to those Imperfections, which are common to all the Works of Nature. 1895 F. Thilly tr. F. Paulsen Introd. Philos. i. ii. 322 The intellectual law of causality is the basis of our belief in the natural order. 1906 J. London Apostate in Sel. Stories 798 That a sink should smell was to him part of the natural order, just as it was a part of the natural order that the soap should be grimy with dish-water. 1934 Encycl. Social Sci. XI. 284/1 The stoics and certain Roman jurists interpreted natural law as that law which conformed to the natural order of the universe. 1993 A. I. C. Heron Cent. Protestant Theol. 7 The same critical and questioning attitude..scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order—what were and commonly still are called ‘the laws of nature’. 2. Botany. (Usually with capital initials.) A group of plant genera which are related in a natural classification (cf. natural adj. 5c); a family (cf. family n. 8a). Now historical.Cf. order n. 11. The epithet natural was in contrast to an order in an artificial system such as that of Linnaeus (cf. artificial system n. at artificial adj. and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > types of stroller1723 natural order1785 subvariety1785 line1805 alliance1835 aggregate1859 stirps1866 segregate1871 cultigen1918 agamospecies1929 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xv. 169 This Class comprises another natural order of plants entitled Stellated, from the manner in which the leaves grow upon the stem. 1807 Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 7 All the Natural Orders which agree in that respect [sc. perigynous insertion of the stamens] may be arranged in one continued series. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 1 (heading) The natural orders of plants. 1863 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) I. (title page) English Botany... Third edition.., re-arranged according to the Natural Orders. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses p. v The vast importance of the Natural Order Graminaceæ is partly due to the large number and world-wide distribution of its species. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) i. 1 All the leguminous forage plants cultivated in the British Isles belong to a sub-order of the Family, or Natural Order, Leguminosæ, called the Papilionaceæ because their flowers are thought to resemble a butterfly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasnatural order c. Botany. In full natural order. A group of allied plant genera in a natural system of classification (equivalent to the modern family). Cf. natural adj. 5c. Now historical. ΚΠ 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 934 The professor has agreed to adopt this new genus by the name of Gardenia, which he says belongs to the natural order of contorted flowers,..monopetalous flowers, whose lobes, or sections of the limb of their petals, turn all to the right hand. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xv. 169 This Class comprises another natural order of plants entitled Stellated, from the manner in which the leaves grow upon the stem. 1807 R. A. Salisbury in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 7 All the Natural Orders which agree in that respect [sc. perigynous insertion of the stamens] may be arranged in one continued series. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 1 (heading) The natural orders of plants. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 5/1 The plant commonly known as the Duke of Argyll's tea tree, belonging to the same natural order (Solanaceæ) as the potato and tomato. 1916 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 3) 143/2 Family..a group of genera, formerly styled Order. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) i. 1 All the leguminous forage plants cultivated in the British Isles belong to a sub-order of the Family, or Natural Order, Leguminosæ, called the Papilionaceæ because their flowers are thought to resemble a butterfly. 1991 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 78 72/2 The usefulness of natural orders in classifying plants had been amply demonstrated by John Lindley in 1830. natural order 15. A method according to which things act or events take place; the fixed arrangement found in the existing state of things; a natural, moral, spiritual, or social system in which things proceed according to definite, established, or constituted laws. Chiefly in such phrases as order of nature, order of things, order of the world; also moral order, natural order, social order, spiritual order, etc.In quot. c1450 at sense 2a: a particular instance of such method or arrangement; a law. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > ordered course of events ordera1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 140v Among alle bestis..briddes and foules ben most honest of kynde, for by ordre of kynde [L. ordinem nature] males seche femalis wiþ bisynesse and loueþ hem. c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) 327 Bi an ordre of oure kinde whan we holde waxen..We schulle forleten oure lif. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaijv No lesse confoundinge the order of thinges, then he whiche cloteth an ape in purple, & a king in sackecloth. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 9v God by the order of his creation hath spoiled woman of authoritie and dominion. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xii. 158 Agreeing with the wisdom of the Creator, and the goodly order of nature. 1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xiii. 126 The birth of Monsters; which I look upon but as a piece of Sportfulness in the order of things. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 11 Objects..Which out of Nature's common Order rise. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. in Wks. (1825) IV. 13 The laws of custom are very apt to be mistaken for the order of nature. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 15 The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xix. 219 Christ's death is the foundation of the new spiritual order. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 More than two generations of men had almost ceased to care whether there be any moral order or not. 1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxvi. 401 In the time of one generation men laid aside the social traditions and practices of barbarians, and assumed a social order worthy of rational and human beings. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 18/2 Men cannot so easily adjust themselves to a new order of things as women. 1951 C. C. Gillispie Genesis & Geol. vi. 169 Revealed truth, though indispensable to belief, could be apprehended inductively, by inferring a moral order parallel to natural order. 1994 Lay Witness Sept. 3/2 Any political order which prescinds from the spiritual order will ultimately perish. < n.1531 as lemmas |
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