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Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.

Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. I call that natural religion which men might know ... by th…

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.

The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a con…

ace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally in the form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the sa…

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

r intrue; to disprove. The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles. Paley.

ed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite. Hermann.

rns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

y the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Ant: Eutychian.

Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. "Your new wife." Chauce…

ctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

r, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.

Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.

iddle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak.

Nihility; nonexistence.