Word Meanings - NATURISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
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- AGENT
Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - AGENTSHIP
Agency. Beau. & Fl. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - BELIEFFUL
Having belief or faith. - BELIEF
A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker. 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk - EVERYTHING
Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope. - NATURE
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order - DOCTRINE
1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or - AGENTIAL
Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall. - SANATIVE
Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n. - INTERAGENT
An intermediate agent. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - UNBELIEF
1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. -- - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak. - SUBAGENT
A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty. - MISBELIEF
Erroneous or false belief. - GOOD-NATUREDLY
With maldness of temper. - MAKE-BELIEF
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.