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Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.

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

The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. Boyle.

The quality or state of being produced by nature. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

The act of abacinating. [R.]

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

ll-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

treme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

A combining together. [R.]

To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]

Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.