astrology
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/
astrology (uncountable)
- Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Harleian manuscript:
- a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
- For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
- 2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
- Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Harleian manuscript:
- starcraft, astrosophy, astromancy
- astrologer
- astrological
- astrologically
- astrologism
- judicial astrology
- natural astrology
- French: astrologie
- German: Astrologie
- Portuguese: astrologia
- Russian: астроло́гия
- Spanish: astrología
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