noun
The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.
In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is only by a train of experiments, that we can separate those circumstances from the rest... Accordingly, the inexperienced artist, when he copies nature, will copy her servilely... and the beauties of his performances will be encumbered with a number of superfluous or disagreeable concomitants. Experience and observation alone can enable him to make this determination: to exhibit the principles of beauty pure and unadulterated, and to form a creation of his own, more faultless, than ever fell under the observation of his senses.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
Vliss.: ... One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And goe to dust, that is a little guilt, More laud then guilt ore-dusted.
Lady. ...Glamys thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature, It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse, To catch the neerest way.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
For the French, it was impossible for them to serve her in that nature.
A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
The particular way someone or something is, especially
...One Hundred of each Nature of Case-Shot...
B.L. cartridges have lubricators choked inside the cartridges of 40-pr. and lower natures.
The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment.
Any such corrasiue, sharpe or eager medicine... as the said H. shal think his nature is vnable to suffer...
For nature creſſant does not grovve alone / In thevvs and bulkes, but as this temple vvaxes, / The invvard ſervice of the minde and ſoule / Grovves vvide vvithal, […]
verb
To endow with natural qualities.
name
The sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
The human genius is creative when it copies Nature, and imitative when it aims to invent.