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Webster 1913 Edition
Nativity
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
. Shakespeare
Thou hast left . . . the land of thy
nativity
. Ruth ii. 11.
These in their dark
Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
nativity
the deepShall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
Milton.
2.
(Fine Arts)
(capitalized)
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 one's future destinies; a horoscope.
The Nativity
, the birth or birthday of Christ; Christmas day.
– To cast one's nativity
or
To calculate one's nativity
(Astrol.)
, to find out and represent the position of the heavenly bodies at the time of one's birth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nativity
NATIVITY
,Noun.
1.
Birth; the coming into life or the world. The feast of Christmas is observed in memory of Christs nativity.2.
Time, place and manner of birth; as, to calculate ones nativity. 3.
State or place of being produced.These, in their dark nativity, the deep Shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame.