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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
nativity
    n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of
         their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency,
         nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
    2: 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 [syn: Virgin Birth,
       Nativity]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Nativity \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.
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            I have served him from the hour of my nativity.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity.
                                                  --Ruth ii. 11.
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            These in their dark nativity the deep
            Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
                                                  --Milton.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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Thesaurus Results for Nativity:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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