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nativity 音标拼音: [nət'ɪvəti] n. 出生;基督降生;圣诞节 出生;基督降生;圣诞节 nativity n 1: the event of being born; " they celebrated the birth of their first child" [ synonym: { 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 [ synonym: { Virgin Birth}, { Nativity}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] I have served him from the hour of my nativity. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity. -- Ruth ii. 11. [ 1913 Webster] These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 62 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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
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