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ending 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. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

The calculation and explanation of a nativity. [Obs.] Bailey.

cribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "from the day of the Nativity," and sealed with the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in its parchment, written character, date, and seal. See Bull. -- Brief of title, an abstract or abridgment of all the deeds and other papers constitut…

; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. A cunning man did calculate my birth. Shak.

First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.

Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.

Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity. [Obs.] "Natalitial poplar." Evelyn. "Natalitious fire." W. Cartwright.

One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.

The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.

A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediæval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol. Grove.

The nativity of our Lord.

of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

l bodies for any moment o at a given event. A blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity. Sir W. Scott.

rformed for another; duty done or required; office. I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. Shak. This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake…

Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior. And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule. Drayton. Yule block, or Yule log, a large log of wood formerly put on the hearth of Christmas eve, as the foundation of the fire. It was brought in wi…