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1509, Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem (Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages; vol. XVIII.), reprinted from the edition of 1555, London: Percy Society, published 1846, cap. xxiv. “Of the five internall wittes.”, stanza 14, lines 1–5, page 111:
In my natyf language I wyl not opres, / More of her werke, for it is obscure; / Who wyl therof knowe all the perfeytnes / In phylosophy he shall fynde it ryght sure, / Whyche all the trouth can to hym discure.
Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound, / Content to breathe his native air / In his own ground.
1780, James Harris, Philological Inquiries (pages 385–539), in The Works of James Harris, Esq., with an account of His Life and Character, by his son, The Earl of Malmesbury., Oxford: printed by J. Vincent for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, London, published 1841, part III (pages 454–539), chapter xiv. “Superior Literature and Knowledge both of the Greek and Latin Clergy ” (pages 529–533), page 529:
Those of the western church were obliged to acquire some knowledge of Latin; and for Greek, to those of the eastern church it was still (with a few corruptions) their native language.
1678, R Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston,, →OCLC:
Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
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1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost., London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker; nd by Robert Boulter; nd Matthias Walker,, →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873, →OCLC:
Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades, Fit haunt of Gods?
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A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
(in particular) A person of aboriginaldescent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native(aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:
Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts "
2013, James Ciment, Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It, Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 72:
As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance.
In North America, native/Native came into use as an umbrella term for the indigenous inhabitants of America as Indian began to fall out of formal usage (because it originated from Columbus's mistaken belief that he was in India and the people he encountered were Indians). Other designations include Native American, Native Canadian, and American Indian. In Canada, the terms include Inuit and Metis and the adjectives First Nation/First Nations.