Nativity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows.”

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

   “[…] ‘my good old tutor […] instilled into me enough of knowledge for erecting a scheme of nativity, and therefore will I presently go about it.’”

3. isim The birth of Jesus.

   “Now we nowhere find warrant in Scripture for setting apart the day of Christ’s Nativity from common use to religious holy use.”

4. isim 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.

   “Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the said statute of repeal, and every thing therein contained […] shall be void and of none effect, from, and after the feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist, next coming.”

5. isim A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
6. isim Origin; founding.

   “1754, David Hume, Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, London: A. Millar, 3rd edition, Volume 4, Discourse 11, “Of the Protestant Succession,” p. 247, […] ’tis justly to be apprehended, that persecutions will put a speedy period to the Protestant religion in the place of its nativity.”

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

   “The specimens of crystals and other hard stones, which were worked both in India and China, the style determining their nativity, are equally choice.”

8. isim The quality of being native or innate.

   “Much difference of opinion has prevailed with reference to the genuine nativity of this species [Vinca minor] in Britain.”

9. özel isim The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
10. özel isim Christmas.