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Etymology: Middle English natif, from Middle French, from Latin nativus, from natus, past participle of nasci to be born — more at NATION
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It would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last bondsman by blood -- _nativus de sanguine_ -- who lived in this country.
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The sheriff took the writ and if the nativus admitted that he was villein to the lord who claimed him, he was delivered by the sheriff to the lord of the manor; but if he claimed to be free, the sheriff should not seize him but the
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The discipline, my mind had undergone, Ne falleretur rotundo sono et versuum cursu, cincinnis, et floribus; sed ut inspiceret quidnam subesset, quae, sedes, quod firmamentum, quis fundus verbis; an figures essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus; vel sanguinis e materiae ipsius corde effluentis rubor quidam nativus et incalescentia genuina; -- removed all obstacles to the appreciation of excellence in style without diminishing my delight.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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On the first Dr. Hickes makes the following remark: 'Indc in uostratium serroone nominum substantivonim genitiviis singularis et nomi - nativus pluralis exeunt regulariter in s vel es, ut in stones, quod lapidis et lapides signiBcat.'
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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_villanus_, _nativus_, _servus_, _custumarius_, and _rusticus_ are synonymous, and the cotters belonged legally to the same servile class.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904
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