单词 | a natural death |
释义 | > as lemmas(to die) a natural death c. Of death: resulting from old age or disease, not brought about by accident, violence, poison, etc. Also, in extended use, in (to die) a natural death: to fade away, become forgotten. Cf. natural causes n. 2.In quot. c1475: physical as opposed to spiritual death. [Compare Italian morte naturale (a1250), Old French mort naturel (mid 13th cent.); compare also classical Latin mors nātūrālis.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > natural death (to die) a natural deatha1522 straw-death1787 natural causes1834 the world > life > death > manner of death > [adjective] > natural death naturala1522 fair1682 c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. 721 (MED) For bothe body and soule that ladde [sc. Need] sleith; Thus is it worse than naturall deth.] a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. xii. 106 Nor ȝit by natural ded peryschit sche. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. ix. f. 66v So lykewyse Yongmen..dye by naturall death aswell as Oldmen do. 1656 S. Vernon Trepan 11 Here i cannot but affirm, that i believe mr. goodwin died not a natural death, and omitting what might be charged upon them..radical moysture of his body. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 121 The grant is usually made ‘for the term of a man's natural life’; which can only determine by his natural death. 1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers xvi. 97 Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 350 If there arises the slightest suspicion that his death was not natural, they put his wife to the torture. 1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 7 53 These human ghowls were not content..to let their friends die a natural death before they ate them. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VII. 189 The conversation so far as it tended that way died a natural death. 1870 Kirriemuir Obs. 1 July 1 [It] maun be a blouster to begin wi', an syne end in a natral death. c1900 H. A. Jones in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 382 When I heard this story was being circulated I thought it would be better to take no notice and let it die a natural death. 1948 P. Dickinson Stone in Midst 75 Thunder gathers all the sky, Tomorrow night a war will end, Men their natural deaths may die And Cain shall be his brother's friend. 1975 S. Brett Cast xi. 104 Assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder. 1997 P. Cornwell Nat. Exposure vi. 140 I wouldn't have signed him out as a natural death. The world should know the truth. < as lemmas |
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