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† cataˈphysic, a. Obs.
[f. Gr. κατά down, against, etc. + ϕύσις nature + -ic.]
Contrary to nature. So cataphysics n. pl. (nonce-wd.); see quot.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. A ij, The wildnesse..of their Cataphysicks (for Metaphysicks it is not) their affirmatives and negatives are neither natural, nor above, nor besides nature, but against it. 1656Blount Glossogr., Cataphysick, against nature. |