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Nativity

Nativity (nativity)
n.(?)
Na*tiv"i*ty
; pl. Nativies (#). [F. nativité, L. nativitas. See Native, and cf. NaïvetÉ.]
  1. The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
    Chaucer.

    I have served him from the hour of my nativity. Shak.

    Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11.

    These in their dark nativity the deep
    Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
    Milton.

  2. A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
  3. A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.

    The Nativity, the birth or birthday of Christ; Christmas day. -- To cast, or calculate, one's nativity (Astrol.), to find out and represent the position of the heavenly bodies at the time of one's birth.














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