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non-ˈnatural, a. and n.
[non- 3.]
A. adj.
†1. non-natural things [medical L. res non-naturales]= ‘non-naturals’ (see B). Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. 86 Necessary..are those six non-naturall things, so much spoken of amongst Physitians. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Non-Natural Things, or the Non-Natural Cause of Diseases, as the Physicians reckon them are six. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Medicine, The fourth branch considers the remedies, and their use, whereby life may be preserved, whence it is called hygieine. Its objects are what we strictly call non-natural.
2. Not belonging to the natural order of things; not according to or dependent upon nature; deviating from the natural course or order.
1826Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Sanity of true Genius, For the super-natural, or something super-added to what we know of nature, they give you the plainly non-natural. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. vi. §2. 210 Whoever comes not from or through Eve or her female posterity, is to be deemed non natural. 1862McCosh Supernatural ii. i. §4. 150 note, A miracle is non-natural. 1874M. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 797 The God of this religion of the future will be still a magnified and non-natural man. 1887Challenger Rep. XIX. iv. 1 The majority of zoologists continued for a long time to divide the Pteropoda into non-natural groups. 1898Green's Encycl. Law Scot. X. 292 The duty of a proprietor making a non-natural use of his lands is extremely strict, and negligence is presumed from the fact of damage.
3. Not in accordance with the natural interpretation or meaning.
1844W. G. Ward Ideal Chr. Ch. 479 Our twelfth Article is as plain as words can make it on the ‘evangelical’ side..I subscribe it myself in a non-natural sense. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel 471 When they strive so hard, in non-natural ways, to force other meanings on the words. 1884Ld. Selborne in Law Rep. 25 Chanc. Div. 688 It is not that the word ‘wife’ is taken in a non-natural sense.
B. n. pl.
1. Old Med. The six things necessary to health, but liable, by abuse or accident, to become the cause of disease, viz. air, meat and drink, sleep and waking, motion and rest, excretion and retention, the affections of the mind.
1708Wainewright (title), A Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals: Being a Brief Explication Of the Changes made in Humane Bodies, by Air, Diet, &c. 1725Robinson The. Physick & Dis. 71 None of the Evacuations will be irregular, if the Air, our Aliment, or some other of the Non-naturals do not disaffect 'em. 1788Cowper Let. in Priv. Corr. (1824) II. 144, I rather suspect that you do not allow yourself sufficient air and exercise. The physicians call them non-naturals, I suppose to deter their patients from the use of them. 1826Scott Diary 9 June in Lockhart, Slept well last night. By the way, how intolerably selfish this Journal makes me seem—so much attention to one's naturals and non-naturals! 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 597/2 On the relations of diet to the non-naturals.
2. The department of study concerned with non-natural objects. rare.
1874M. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 818 If any science is likely to be able to demonstrate to us the magnified and non-natural man, it must be the science of non-naturals.
Hence non-natuˈrality, non-ˈnaturalness, the condition of being non-natural.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 55 He denied some of the facts by which the non-naturality of the death was indicated. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 330 The non-naturalness of the thought. |