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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.
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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.
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