in rerum natura

British  

/ ɪn ˈrɛərʊm næˈtʊərə /

1. in the nature of things

---

Example Sentences

Why, you blockhead, there is no such thing in rerum natura.

From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

TRUE: How does my noble captain? is the bull, bear, and horse in rerum natura still?

From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben

Many of them express relations of terms to which nothing exactly or nothing at all in rerum natura corresponds.

From Meno by Jowett, Benjamin

In any case, a scientific reasoner might be expected to ask: 'Is this alleged acquisition of knowledge, not through the ordinary channels of sense, a thing in rerum natura?'

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

I trust, however, the hospitable gossiping Laird h$s not run himself upon the shallows, and that his chaplain, whom you so often made us laugh at, is still in rerum natura.

From Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Scott, Walter, Sir