Definition of "matter of course" []

• A natural or logical outcome. (noun)

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• "The Dukes of York and Kent and a body of notables formed a committee to look into the causes of the distress, and purely as a matter of course they called upon Mr. Owen, the philanthropist, to present his views."
• "Laurence Fitzgibbon had also just been over about his election, and had been returned as a matter of course for his father's county."
• "Originally the word scribe meant "scrivener"; but rapidly it was accepted as a matter of course that the scribe who copies the Law knows the Law best, and is its most qualified expounder: accordingly the word came to mean more than it implies etymologically."