debt of nature noun

Death

bad debt

A debt of which there is no prospect of payment

floating debt

Miscellaneous public debt, like exchequer and treasury bills, as opposed to funded debt, that which has been converted into perpetual annuities like consols in Britain

in someone's debt

Under an obligation (not necessarily pecuniary) to someone

national debt see under nation¹

nature /nāˈchər/

1. (often with cap) the power that creates and regulates the world
2. All the natural phenomena created by this power, including plants, animals, landscape, etc as distinct from people
3. The power of growth
4. The established order of things
5. The cosmos
6. The external world, esp as untouched by humans
7. The qualities of anything which make it what it is, governing its character and behaviour
8. Essence
9. Being
10. Constitution
11. Kind or order
12. Naturalness
13. Normal feeling
14. Disposition or temperament
15. Kindliness
16. Conformity to truth or reality
17. Inborn mind, character, instinct or disposition
18. Vital power of humans or animals (obsolete)
19. The normal biological functions or needs of a body
20. The course of life
21. Nakedness
22. A primitive undomesticated condition or community
23. The countryside, esp when unspoilt or picturesque
24. The strength or substance of anything
25. That which an individual inherits, determining in parts its structure, character and behaviour, as distinguished from nurture, or what is learnt from experience, environment or training

naˈtured adjective

Having a certain temper or disposition (esp in compounds, as in good-natured)

naˈturing adjective

Creative

naˈturism noun

1. Communal nudity or nudity practised openly, sometimes in the belief that it encourages self-respect, respect for others and a feeling of being in harmony with nature
2. Nature-worship

naˈturist noun and adjective

naturistˈic adjective

natˈuropath noun

A person who practises naturopathy

naturopathˈic adjective

nāturopˈathy (also /nat-/) noun

1. The promotion of health and natural healing by a system of diet, exercise, manipulation, care and hydrotherapy
2. The philosophy of the system

nature cure noun

The practice of or treatment by naturopathy

naˈture-god noun

A deity personifying some force of physical nature

nature knowledge see nature study below.

naˈture-myth noun

A myth symbolizing natural phenomena

nature printing noun

Printing from plates that have been impressed with some natural object

nature reserve noun

An area of land specially managed and protected to preserve its flora and fauna

nature strip noun (Aust)

A strip of grass, etc bordering a road or footpath or dividing two carriageways

nature study or nature knowledge noun

A (school) discipline intended to cultivate the powers of seeing and enjoying nature by observation of natural objects, eg plants, animals, etc

nature trail noun

A path through the countryside, usu with signposts to draw attention to interesting natural features

naˈture-worship noun

1. Worship of the powers of nature
2. Naturism

against nature

Immoral or unnatural

debt of nature

Death

ease (or relieve) nature

To evacuate the bowels

from nature (art and sculpture)

Using objects taken from nature as models

in (or of) the nature of

Of the same sort as, that amounts to