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d. Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. L'Estrange. Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet.

Unnatural sexual relations between women.

The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.

To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. Spenser. Milton.

Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. A monster or marvel. Chaucer.

th. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor.

In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden.

To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. "Mouthing big phrases." Hare. Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. Tennyson.

Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings. To leave his wife, to leave his babes, ... He wants the natural touch. Shak.

Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. [Obs.] Milton.

Not natural; unnatural.

An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.

To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser.