in rerum natura

British  

/ ɪn ˈrɛərʊm næˈtʊərə /

1. in the nature of things

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Example Sentences

I sometimes doubt whether there ever was in rerum naturâ any one such creature.

From Project Gutenberg

Divinum autem esse est absque additione, non solum cogitatione, sed etiam in rerum natura; et non solum absque additione, sed absque receptibilitate additionis.

From Project Gutenberg

Bonaventura accepts as Platonic the theory that ideas do not exist in rerum natura, but as thoughts of the divine mind, according to which actual things were formed; and this conception has no slight influence upon his philosophy.

From Project Gutenberg

Jack—Secondly, because in said indictment the color of the cow is called red; there being no such things in rerum natura as red cows, no more than black lions, spread eagles, flying griffins, or blue boars.

From Project Gutenberg

They express beliefs about things and the relations among things in rerum natura: when any one understands them and gives his assent to them, he never stops to think of the speaker's state of mind, but of what the words represent.

From Project Gutenberg