单词 | of nature |
释义 | > as lemmasof (also †in) (a certain) nature P1. of (also †in) (a certain) nature: of a (also the) type, character, etc., specified. Cf. sense 8a.In quots. c1426 and a1500: spec. of the specified family or birth. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > as opposed to individually of a (certain) sortc1380 of (also in) (a certain) naturec1390 in specie1562 in a‥style1772 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > quality of being (a) criminal > degree of criminality in (a certain) nature1625 degreea1676 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 461 We ben alle of o fader and of o moder, and alle we ben of o nature [v.r. mater], roten and corrupt. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 191 (MED) A Babe is borne of hye natewre, A Prynce of pese. 1494 Loutfut MS f. 34v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Natur(e That he wes of gud wil and of a gud natur. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2656 ‘We are broderen,’ quod he, ‘of on nature’. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cciiijv [He was] a man of..verey milde nature. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 377 Your capacitie Is of that nature, that to your hudge stoore, Wise thinges seeme foolish. View more context for this quotation 1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 29 Sacriledge, and many other sinnes of a high nature. 1642 J. March Argument Militia 22 Delinquents in a high nature, against Parliament. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §10 Who may in a matter of this nature..be the more credited. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 1. ¶1 With other Particulars of the like nature. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 21 A plan of this nature. 1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §1. 360 Nothing could more fully evince, that Moses's innocent progenitors of mankind..were of a similar nature to our's, than their susceptibility of propagating the species. 1818 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 25 The sentiment we feel towards him is of a different nature. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 82 To bring a charge..of such a nature as should fall within this penalty. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 189 The most barren logical abstraction is of a higher nature than number and figure. 1906 T. P. Ollason Spindrift 53 Anidder fower ooks o' a laek naeter wid fairleens hae her feenished. 1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West xv. 212 They themselves, in fact, had independently suggested something of this nature. 1992 Numismatist Mar. 304/3 Comments of this nature are..uttered only by those who know little or nothing about this coinage. by (also †of, †on) nature P3. by (also †of, †on) nature: by virtue of the character or essence of a thing or person; inherently, innately.In some cases with admixture of sense 5 or (esp. in the context of natural phenomena) sense 11. ΚΠ a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 113 Now was this Ector pitous of nature. ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 641 (MED) Wyn off nature makith hertes liht. a1450 Dis. Women (Douce) in Proc. Royal Soc. Med. (1916) 9 37 (MED) Whomen ben more febull and colde be nature þan men. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 112 Eftir respyt To wirk dispyt Moir appetyt He hes of natour. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Gal. ii. 15 We which are Jewes by nature and not synners off the gentyls. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxix. 152 The gulfe Saxonique of nature beset and enuironed with high mountaines. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 30692 Force is to thame on nature to be fals. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 34 The Oke by nature broad. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 527 He..ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 134 In a place, by Nature closs, they build A narrow Flooring. View more context for this quotation 1706 S. Clarke Let. to Mr. Dodwell 10 That the Soul is by Nature Immortal, and must be mortalized by the Omnipotence of God, if ever it perish. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. i. 3 I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. 1795 A. Hughes Jemima I. 83 You are a Paisley by nature as well as by birth, and incapable of becoming a worthy metropolitan. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lii. 31 Adeline was liberal by Nature. 1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iii. i. 141 Asia Minor..was by nature one of the most beautiful..of countries. 1881 H. W. Chandler Greek Accent. (ed. 2) §11 No word with a final syllable long by nature can be proparoxytone or properispomenon. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey I. i. 1 Political by birth rather than by nature. 1935 W. de la Mare Early One Morning 268 If he is not by nature a fainter he may pore over the blood. 1986 P. B. Clarke Black Paradise i. 20 This recalls the Aristotelian view that some people are slaves by nature. < as lemmas |
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