Nature vs Scop - What's the difference?
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(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
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, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
(historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
* 1900', Reuben Post Halleck, ''History of English Literature'', quoted in '''1927 , Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, ''Essentials in Music History , 2011, Facsimile Edition,
* 1991 , R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature , India,
* 2004 , Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader ,
* 2011 , Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Cambridge University Press,
As a proper noun nature
is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.As a noun scop is
scope.nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
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Derived terms
* animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)Verb
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(wikipedia scop)Noun
(en noun)page 42,
- The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop''''', or maker of verses.The banquet was not complete without the songs of the '''scop'''. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the ' scop , standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.
page 1,
- The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith'' which means a great traveller. The scop''' was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.The ''Lament of Deor'' tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar ' scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.
page 273,
- During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.
page 43,
- The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop :.