quasi-natural
- a word derived from natural.
Example Sentences
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In 1975, an ex-city engineer named Emmett Wahlman pitched an even more improbable quasi-natural enhancement: a salmon stream running from Capitol Hill along Pike Street and Westlake Avenue to Lake Union.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2018
Not in the sense of “as nature intended,” but quasi-natural.
From Newsweek
And the question of the prolonged existence of this comparatively new social phenomenon, either in its present or some modified form, turns, therefore, entirely on the quasi-natural laws of the social body.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Sometimes it means a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action, in which sense the word is applied to dumb animals.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Now moral virtue is so called from mos in the sense of a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
