| 单词 | the law of nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe law of nature c. as implanted by nature in the human mind, or as capable of being demonstrated by reason. Formerly often the law of nature (now rarely, because of the frequency of that expression in sense 17), †law of kind, natural law, the law of reason, etc.The expression law of nature (lex naturæ or naturalis, jus naturale) in Cicero, Seneca, and the Roman jurists, is ultimately derived from the ϕυσικὸν δίκαιον of Aristotle. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > natural law natural lawc1225 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > law of > as implanted in human mind law of kindc1225 law of naturec1470 the law of reason?1530 higher law1593 natural law1878 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > law of > as implanted in human mind > also applied to irrational creatures law of naturec1225 c1225 Leg. Kath. 964 Hit is aȝein riht ant aȝein leaue of euch cundelich lahe. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 272 But he the bestes wolde binde Only to lawes of nature. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1575 Þe lawe of soþenes ny of kynde Wolde þei no tyme fynde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28491 And haf i broken wit foly, þe lagh o kynd thoru licheri. c1470 G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 695 Poems 34 If forgoten be al lawe positife, Remembre the noble lawe of nature. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 11. Proem The Athenyens the whiche lyued after the lawe of Kynde. ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student ii. f. iv The lawe of nature..consydered generally..is referred to al creatures as well resonable as vnresonable...The lawe of nature specially consydered, whiche is also callyd the lawe of reason parteyneth only to creatures reasonable that is man..as to the orderyng of the dedes of man, it is preferryd before the lawe of god. And it is wrytyn in the herte of euery man. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 50/2 The law of nature wyll the mother kepe her childe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxiiiv I shuld not do that whiche by the lawes of nature and reason I ought to do, which is to rendre kyndnes for kyndnes. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 66 The lawe of reason or humaine nature. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 321 I see no reason in the law of nature . View more context for this quotation a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) i. i. §6 That part of Gods Law which bindes alwayes, bound before it was written..and that is the Law of nature. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 544 The Law of Nature,..I take to be nothing else, but the mind of God, signified to a Rational agent by the bare discourse of his Reason. 1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §33. 43 Self-Preservation is..the very first and fundamental Law of Nature. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. §2. 39 This will of his maker is called the law of nature. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. in Wks. (1843) I. 9 Instead of the phrase, Law of Nature, you have sometimes Law of Reason. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 109 Natural law was profoundly revered, while conventional law hardly yet existed. < as lemmas |
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