Nāt'ū-ral-īṣm, n.

n. [Fr. naturalisme.]

1. Mere state of nature.
2. (Theol.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the spiritual influences on the soul of man; also, that theory of the universe which resolves all its phenomena into blind or intelligent forces acting according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.