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character; inherent qualities, attributes, or endowments; kind; sort; character; species; established or regular course of things; existing system of things; the world of matter; thecrcatiou; universe; the personified sum and order of causes and effects; the agencies which carry on the proce es of the creation; natural fection or reverence; adherence to what is natural, normal, or usual; a person of intelligence and character. — Nat'ural, nach'ur-al, a. Pert, to the constitution of a thing; according to nature; characteristic; conformed to the order of nature; normal; regular; having to do with the existing system things; conformed to truth or reality; by impulses of natural appetite alone; illegitimate; bastard pert, to, derived from, or formed by, the lower animal nature merely. (Mus.) Pert, to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, —n. An idiot. (Mus.) A character [thus, _Q~] used contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it. — Nat'uralist, n. One who studies the natural history of animals; one who maintains the doctrines of naturalism.— Nat'uraliza'tion, it. Act of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen; state of being thus invested with citizenship.— Nat'uralize, v. t. [-ized (-Izd), -izijtg.] To make natural or easy by custom and habit; to confer rights of native citizen on; to receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to accustom, habituate, acclimate.— v. i. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws. — Nafurally, adv. According nature, or to the usual course of things; without or cultivation; spontaneously; without affectation.