(historical, originally) A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.

Undomesticated animals; wild beasts.

of a domestic nature. / (law) applied to domestic animals which can be claimed as their property.

The ability of the body to heal itself without intervention.

From the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.