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l; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

To make unnatural. [R.] Hales.

or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Contrary to nature; unnatural.

Unnatural connection with a beast.

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

Unnatural; contrary to nature. [R.] Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering tho…

Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperæmic; -- said of any part of the body.

To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effet; as, a constrained voice.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

g; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. [Obs.] Shak.