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Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

uggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

raph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

ne of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.…

The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." Beattie.

Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.

In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

To cross with one or more stripes or lines. For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. Burney.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.

The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible. [R.]