Na*tiv"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Nativies (#). [F. nativité, L. nativitas. See Native, and cf. NaïvetÉ.] 1. The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. Chaucer.

I have served him from the hour of my nativity.

Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity.

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

2. (Fine Arts) 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.

3. (Astrol.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.

• birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth
  

• the birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
  
• (by extension) Christmas