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Natal   /nˈeɪtəl/  /nətˈɑl/   Listen
adjective
Natal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native. "Princes' children took names from their natal places." "Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour."
2.
(Astrol.) Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.
Synonyms: Native, natural. See Native.





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"Natal" Quotes from Famous Books



... to find Jordan. A steamer had sailed the previous day from Southampton for Port Natal, via the Suez Canal, and Sedgwick's plan was to join ...
— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin
... usually children who came into life under right pre-natal conditions. That is, children conceived ...
— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... spent the whole evening we were there talking to Cecil and not to the lady we had had the row with, which was a pleasing triumph. He sent me unsolicited a most flattering personal letter to the Governor of Natal, saying that I had come to him with my strong letters but that he had so enjoyed meeting me that he wished to pass me on on his own account. Cecil asked me what it was I had talked so much to him about and I asked her if it were possible she couldn't guess that of course I would ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... 1862 brought severe domestic bereavements to the Moffats. During a journey to Durban, in Natal, their eldest son, Mr. Robert Moffat, died, leaving a wife and four children. He had started to bring them from Durban to the home he had prepared at Kuruman. He had primarily been intended for a missionary, and had been sent to England to be educated for that ...
— Robert Moffat - The Missionary Hero of Kuruman • David J. Deane
... hemispheres by a continuous network of triangulation. The history of geodesy in South Africa began with Lacaille's measurements in 1752. They were repeated and enlarged in scope by Sir Thomas Maclear in 1841-48; and his determinations prepared the way for a complete survey of Cape Colony and Natal, executed during the ten years 1883-92 by Colonel Morris, R.E., under the direction of Sir David Gill.[909] Bechuanaland and Rhodesia were subsequently included in the work; and the Royal Astronomer obtained, in 1900, the support of the International ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke


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