• Astrology

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /əˈstɹɒlÉ™dÊ’i/

    Origin

    From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia ("astronomy"), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrologia, "telling of the stars"), from ἄστρον (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)
    1. 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.
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