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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adherent of or believer in the Ptolemaic system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A believer in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
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- noun historical One who accepts the
astronomical system ofPtolemy .
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Copernicus [4] -- indicate the extreme limits to which a Ptolemaist could go in opposition to astrology.
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