In the course of history, the metaphysical nature of this process was lost, and the theory fell from use.

Some still lifes also carried inscriptions of a metaphysical nature.

Magic, power of any kind of a metaphysical nature, leaves a residue behind.

He explains that spiritual or metaphysical nature is the root of all rational world order.

During the war he continued to produce poems of a spiritual or metaphysical nature, most of which were never published.

Toinette is sympathetic to this idea but later in the play evinces doubt and uncertainty about the metaphysical nature of their undertaking.

However, Cassirer claimed that man's outstanding characteristic is not in his metaphysical or physical nature, but rather in his work.

The Buddha followed this, for example, when asked questions of a purely metaphysical nature, unrelated to the goal, path or discipline that he taught.

They claim that it contains a metaphysical nature and is both transcendental and immanent.

However, these theories are largely of a metaphysical nature, and are of minor importance from a scientific standpoint.