Word Finder - nativity

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Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.

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Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.

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(also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.

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(also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.

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(also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.

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Origin; founding.

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Place of origin; place to which a species is native.

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The quality of being native or innate.

She assured Jerome that, in the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, she beheld, with the eye of faith, the Christ-child wrapped in swaddling clothes (Ep. 108, 10).

These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin.

The Fast of the Nativity lasts for twenty-eight days before Christmas; that of the Apostles for a variable number of days from the Feast of the Ascension; and that of the Virgin for fifteen days before the Assumption.

The legendary tradition which even Philo accepts gives it a formal nativity, a royal patron and inspired authors.

The date of the Nativity as fixed according to our common computation of Anni Domini (first put forward by Dionysius Exiguus at Rome early in the 6th century) has long been recognized to be too late.

How long before this the Nativity should be placed the Gospel does not enable us to say precisely, but as Herod's decree of extermination included all infants up to two years of age, and as a sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt of unknown length intervened between the massacre and Herod's death, it is clear that it is at least possible, so far as the evidence of this Gospel goes, that the birth of Christ preceded Herod's death by as much as two or three years.

The building of the college of the Holy Virgin in Nativity, now King's College, was completed in 1506, and the bishop also rebuilt the choir of his cathedral, and built a bridge over the Dee.

Mention is made of a "Nativity" painted for and sent to the emperor Maximilian, and also apparently of some picture painted for Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary; both are lost or at least unidentified.

The children and young people usually perform the nativity play a week or so before.

It is from an incidental remark of his own, namely, that the year of the siege of Mount Badon - one of the battles fought between the Saxons and the Britons - was also the year of his own nativity, that the date of his birth has been derived; the place, however, is not mentioned.

In 1246 Nicholas obtained a grant of a Saturday market and a fair at the feast of the Assumption (both maintained up to the present day), and in 1275 South Molton appears for the' first time as a mesne borough under his overlordship. The borough subsequently passed to the Audleys, the Hollands, and in 1487 was granted for life to Margaret, duchess of Richmond, who in 1490 obtained a grant of a fair (which is still held) at the nativity of St John the Baptist.

In 1847 the dispute in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem about the right to mark with a star the birthplace of Christ became one of the prime causes of the Crimean war.

This Saturninus was the middle one of the three governors of Syria named above, and as his successor Varus must have arrived by the middle of 6 B.C. at latest (for coins of Varus are extant of the twenty-fifth year of the era of Actium), his own tenure must have fallen about 8 and 7 B.C., and his census cannot be placed later than 7 or 7-6 B.C. The independence of Tertullian's information about this census is guaranteed by the mere fact of his knowledge of the governor's name; and if there was a census about that date, it would be unreasonable not to identify it with St Luke's census of the Nativity.

In 1850 a dispute arose between France and Russia, in the name of the Latin and Greek Churches respectively, concerning the possession of the key of the chief door of the basilica, and concerning the right to place a silver star, with the arms of France, in the grotto of the Nativity.

On awaking (it was Christmas Day), he immediately mounted the pulpit, and gave forth his famous hymn on the Nativity.

In London he acted with Sir Henry Ashurst, the resident agent, and had two or He was so christened "because of the never-to-be-forgotten increase, of every sort, wherewith God favoured the country about the time of his nativity."

Alex hung the lights across the front of the house and put the lighted nativity scene on the front lawn.

Also filming took place at a school in Putney in London, where various characters watch a school nativity " .

By not judging the nativity first, we have done more harm than good.

There are several stained-glass windows; the east and west represent the nativity and the Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord.

I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Taking a break This little drummer boy is having a rest from the nursery nativity.

The lighting effects in the King's book are brilliantly orchestrated, attaining a high point in its miniature of The Nativity.

Last year's most offensive TV advert was for Mr Kipling mince pies, which showed a woman giving birth during a nativity play.

It is also common to see nativity scenes in German homes.

Created substitute programs to child's nativity stares quot cases were in the book.

My daughter has been to her nativity play but i can't get her out of her Mary tabard.

He created a perfect baby... Actors move quietly to form a Nativity tableau.

There is something distinctly un-American about Kenny's book, which might be explained by his Irish, rather than American-Irish, nativity.

But it is submitted that their harmony and convergence give them some additional claim to acceptance, and at any rate do something to secure each one of them singly - the Nativity in 7-6 B.C., the Baptism in A.D.

It was then kept on the 14th of February, forty days after Epiphany, the celebration of the Nativity (Christmas) not having been as yet introduced; the Armenians still keep it on this day, as " the Coming of the Son of God into the Temple."

The benevolent or malignant influence of each planet, together with the sun and moon, is modified by the sign it inhabits at the nativity; thus Jupiter in one house may indicate riches, fame in another, beauty in another, and Saturn similarly poverty, obscurity or deformity.

As physiognomists (see Physiognomy) their talent was undoubted, and according to Vanini there was no need to mount to the house-top to cast a nativity.

These materials focus around the story of the nativity and use black and white rebus symbols.

Less than 100 feet from Nativity Church, he was shot by an Israeli sniper from a hill nearly a mile away.

Perhaps it should, particularly given the unusual celestial symbolism employed in the Christian Nativity.

There is something distinctly un-American about Kenny 's book, which might be explained by his Irish, rather than American-Irish, nativity.

Ceramic and wooden nativity scenes are popular traditional American decor items around the holidays.

Suitable charms include representations of the baby Jesus or the nativity scene for Christmas and the cross for Easter.

Mexico. This largely Roman Catholic country uses the Nativity as its primary Christmas symbol.

The nativity scene that closes the show has a cast of 12 animals, including a camel.

French citizens may often have a Nativity scene in their home called a crèche.

If a photo card is not possible, find graphics of the Nativity, Jesus, angels or a church in the snow to put on the front of the card.

Throughout Italy, you'll see marvelous nativity displays, or prespi.

Also called "The Tree of Light", a nativity scene sits at the base, and on the shelves are candy, nuts, fruit, and gifts.

A living nativity sends a reminder of the reason for the season.

Others will celebrate with live nativity scenes or Christmas pageants.

Many houses will add Christmas figures to the yard, such as Santa and his reindeer or a nativity scene.

What begun long before the nativity has now become a holiday staple of joy and delight.

Your actors can recreate the Nativity scene while a pleasant voice reads the story of Jesus' birth from the Bible with the voice seeming to come from the sky by strategically (and carefully) placing speakers above the scene.