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nativity
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Nativity may refer to: Nativity of Jesus , the Gospel stories of the birth of Jesus any depiction of the nativity scene, see Nativity of Jesus in art Nativity (Campin) , a 1420 panel painting by Robert Campin Nativity (Christus) , a devotional mid-1450s ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nativity \Na*tiv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Nativies . [F. nativit['e], L. nativitas. See Native , and cf. Na["i]vet['E] .] The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. --Chaucer. I have ...
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It was known that while Count Joscelin of Edessa had been celebrating the season of the Nativity at one of his estates upon the upper reaches of the Euphrates, Moslem hordes had fallen upon his principal city on the northern outposts of the Latin Kingdom, breached its walls, laid low its altars, and taken its burghers into captivity.
State among the citizens of the United States in the exercise of the elective franchise, or in the right to hold office in any State, on account of race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious creed.
For some, considering only the cause of filiation, which is nativity, put two filiations in Christ, just as there are two nativities.
For if we consider the adequate causes of filiation, we must needs say that there are two filiations in respect of the twofold nativity.
Temporal nativity would cause a real temporal filiation in Christ if there were in Him a subject capable of such filiation.
The third law applied to insults, batteries, wounds, blows, torts, effusion of blood, and similar injuries inflicted at the season of the Nativity, the week of Pasque, and at Pentecost.
They were two cousins, almost like to twins, Except that from the catalogue of sins Nature had rased their love--which could not be But by dissevering their nativity.
We see that certain children of the same age, nativity and race, nay, from the same household, under the tutorship of one teacher, differ in their minds and comprehensions.
Consequently, nativity is attributed to the person or hypostasis as to the proper subject of being born, but not to the nature.
Objection 1: It would seem that temporal nativity is not to be attributed to Christ.
Emesa in Syria had a royal nativity, he solicited and obtained her hand.
When the passions of the hour shall have subsided, and the past shall be reviewed with discrimination and justice, the question must arise in every reflecting mind, Why did such men as these expatriate themselves, and surrender all the advantages which they had won by a life of honorable effort in the land of their nativity?
Isidore of Pelusium, in Egypt, mentions the Theophany and the Nativity of our Saviour, according to the flesh, as two different festivals.
On my second visit, to attend the Nativity play, the place had been throbbing with parents, teachers and governors and there had been a Christmassy atmosphere in the frosty air.
None of these, except the feast of the Holy Innocents, have any special connection with the Nativity or the Infancy, and the popular customs connected with them will come up for consideration in our Second Part.