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Nativity 1. the birth of Jesus Christ 2. the feast of Christmas as a commemoration of this 3. a. an artistic representation of the circumstances of the birth of Christ b. (as modifier): a Nativity play Nativity See also Christmas. Neglectfulness (See CARELESSNESS.) Nervousness (See INSECURITY.) Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus. [N.T.: Matthew 2:1] Magi of the Orient pay homage to infant Jesus. [Christianity: Hall, 6] cattle trough which served as crib for Christ. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] always present in pictures of Christ’s birth. [Christian Art: de Bles, 29; O.T.: Habakkuk 3:4] notified by angel of the birth of the Messiah. [N.T.: Luke 2:8–17] star in the east which directed the Magi and shepherds to the baby Jesus. [N.T.: Matthew 2:9] in which Mary wraps her new-born infant. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] kings of the Orient, come to worship the baby Jesus. [N.T.: Matthew 2:1–2] |
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Pena, that the Queen Mother, who was given to curious arts, caused the King her husband's nativity to be calculated, under a false name; and the astrologer gave a judgment, that he should be killed in a duel; at which the Queen laughed, thinking her husband to be above challenges and duels: but he was slain upon a course at tilt, the splinters of the staff of Montgomery going in at his beaver. These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin. In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth. |
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