Category:Nativity

Na*tiv"i*ty, n.; pl. Nativies. Etym: [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.

2. (fine arts)

Defn: 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 a Donkey to express the stable in which He was born.

3. (astrol.)

Defn: a representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies. 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.

The Nativity Matthew 2:1-12 Luke 2:1-20