Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
astrologer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An astrologer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
astrologer .
Etymologies
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Old French astrologien.
Examples
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Instances and examples, to evince the truth of those aphorisms, are common amongst those astrologian treatises.
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Perdix also a wizard, and a learned astrologian florished and writ his prophesies, and Herene also.
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Dr. Faustus having received denial of his spirit to be resolved any more in such questions propounded, forgot all good works, and fell to be a calendar-maker by the help of his spirit, and also in short time to be a good astronomer or astrologian.
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I was greatly oppressed in my stomach; and next day Mr. Saunders, _the astrologian_, sent me a piece of briony-root to hold in my hand; and within a quarter of an hour my stomach was freed from that great oppression, "p. 314.
Gammerstang commented on the word astrologian
(noun) - One who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars. Formerly one who understood the motions of the planets without predicting.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
January 16, 2018