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Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.

To make unnatural. [R.] Hales.

Same as Curare.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of…

A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

tale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible afte…

A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

To infer; to conclude. [Archaic] Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.

Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. Great Dane. (Zoöl.) See Danish dog, under Danish.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

rt of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

The act of naturalizing. [R.]

To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.