Also 3 birde-, 3–4 bur-, buyr-, burþe-. Date or moment of birth.
1297. R. Glouc., 9. From oure Lordes burþe time to þe worldes ende. Ibid., 443. Oure Louerdes burtyme.
c. 1300. Life of Jesus, 295 (Mätz.). Þet oþur buyrtyme þat scholde beo þo he gan hem þat lere.
a. 1564. Becon, Com.-pl. Holy Script., Wks. (1844), 302. If they did perceive in the birth-time that it was a boy.
1860. Hawthorne, Marble Faun (1879), I. xviii. 183. The birth-time of Christianity.
