Cold-natured

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances. Chinese, traditional

    "The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs."

  2. 2
    Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.

    "Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk."

  3. 3
    Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.

    "No, he was thinking, Kate isn't cold-natured at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination! She was sweet and warm and loving,"

  4. 4
    Thriving in colder environments.

    "Line the whole crust or fortifying boundary on its inside to the north, facing the south, with a conservatory for tropical plants, &c, that shall enclose twenty acres ; line it to the south, facing the north, with a conservatory of the same size for " cold- natured vegetation.""

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"The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs."

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