Astrology
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/
Origin
From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia ("astronomy"), from Ancient Greek ἀστÏολογία (astrologia, "telling of the stars"), from ἄστÏον (astron, "star, planet, or constellation") + -λογία (-logia, "treating of"), combination form of -λόγος (-logos, "one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
Full definition of astrology
Noun
astrology
(usually uncountable; plural astrologies)- 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, 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.