n. Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [ Obs. ] Dr. J. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Denaturalized p. pr. & vb. n. Denaturalizing. ] [ Cf. F. dénaturaliser. ] 1. To render unnatural; to alienate from nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. same as denature. [ PJC ]

v. t. To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. naturalisme. ] 1. A state of nature; conformity to nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. Specifically: The principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. naturaliste. ] 1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of plants or animals; a botanist or zoologist. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. “Naturalistic bit of pantomime.” W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. naturalitas: cf. F. naturalité. ] Nature; naturalness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. naturalisation. ] The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Naturalized p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing ] [ Cf. F. naturaliser. See Natural. ] 1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become as if native. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infected by this naturalizing tendency. H. Bushnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants or animals not native to a location. [ wns=1 & 3 ]
Syn. -- domesticated, nonnative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. planted randomly in soil so as to give an appearance of wild growth; as, drifts of naturalized daffodils. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Preternaturalness. [ R. ] Dr. John Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case. [ Written also supranaturalism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to supernaturalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being supernatural. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or regard as supernatural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supernaturalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make unnatural. [ R. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]