Word: natural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, natur(e) + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹəl/, /ˈnæt.(ə.)ɹəl/, /ˈnatʃ(ʊ)rəl/, /ˈnetʃ(ʊ)rəl/ 1. Existing in nature. Example: The natural Love of Life gave me some inward Motions of Joy. Example: With strong natural sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces. 2. Existing in nature. Example: The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed. 3. Existing in nature. Example: It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays. Example: His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime. 4. Existing in nature. Example: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation. 5. Existing in nature. Example: She died of natural causes. Example: Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to a natural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February. 6. Existing in nature. Example: Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected. 7. Existing in nature. 8. Existing in nature. 9. Existing in nature. Example: There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp. 10. Existing in nature. Example: Natural food is healthier than processed food. 11. Existing in nature. 12. Existing in nature. 13. Existing in nature. 14. Existing in nature. 15. Existing in nature. 16. Existing in nature. 17. Pertaining to birth or descent; native. Example: Whom should he follow but his naturall king. Example: I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me. 18. Pertaining to birth or descent; native. Example: [M]y Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl […]. Example: “What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel’s, my dear; a very near relation. We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.” Then lowering her voice a little, she said to Elinor, “She is his natural daughter.” “Indeed!” “Oh! yes; and as like him as she can stare. I dare say the Colonel will leave her all his fortune.” Lady Middleton’s delicacy was shocked; an in order to banish so improper a subject as the mention of a natural daughter, she actually took the trouble of saying something herself about the weather. 19. Pertaining to birth or descent; native. Example: The first-born in every house, “from the first-born of the Pharaoh on the throne, to the first-born of the captive in the dungeon,” unaccountably found himself enlisted in the ranks of this new power, and estranged from his natural friends.