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What's The Definition Of Nativity?
[n] the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas
[n] the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" Synonyms | Synonyms for Nativity: birth | nascence | nascency | Virgin Birth Related Terms | Find terms related to Nativity: aboriginality | accouchement | aspect | astrodiagnosis | astrology | astromancy | autochthonousness | babyhood | beginnings | birth | birth throes | birthing | blessed event | childbearing | childbed | childbirth | childhood | confinement | cradle | delivery | freshman year | genesis | genethliac astrology | genethliacism | genethliacs | genethlialogy | giving birth | hatching | having a baby | horoscope | horoscopy | house | inception | inchoation | incipience | incipiency | incunabula | indigenousness | infancy | labor | mansion | multiparity | mundane astrology | mundane house | nascence | nascency | nationality | native-bornness | nativeness | nativism | natural astrology | origin | origination | parturition | planetary house | pregnancy | stargazing | the Nativity | the stork | travail | youth | zodiac See Also | alteration | change | Christian theology | delivery | live birth | modification | posthumous birth | rebirth | reincarnation | theological doctrine Nativity In Webster's Dictionary \Na*tiv"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Nativies}. [F. nativit['e], L.
nativitas. See {Native}, and cf. {Na["i]vet['E]}.]
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. (Fine Arts) 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. (Astrol.) 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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