a. Obs. [f. Gr. κατά down, against, etc. + φύσις nature + -IC.] Contrary to nature. So Cataphysics sb. pl. (nonce-wd.); see quot.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., A ij. The wildnesse … of their Cataphysicks (for Metaphysicks it is not) their affirmatives and negatives are neither natural, nor above, nor besides nature, but against it.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Cataphysick, against nature.
