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18 words match “ASTROLOGER”

ASTROLOGER n. 2 definitions
One who studies the stars; an astronomer. [Obs.]
ASPECT n.
The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect. Shak. The astrologers call the evil influences of the stars evil aspects. Bacon. Aspect of a plane (Geom.), the direction of the plane.
ASTROLOGIAN n.
An astrologer. [Obs.]
ASTRONOMER n.
An astrologer. [Obs.] Shak.
ASTRONOMIAN n.
An astrologer. [Obs.]
BABYLONIAN n.
An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
CHALDEAN a.
A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.
CONFIGURATION n.
e of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.
ELD n.
Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.
GENETHLIAC a.
Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth. Howell.
HOROSCOPE n.
ntation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.
HOROSCOPER; HOROSCOPIST n.
One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
HOUSE n.
divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant,…
INFLUENCE n.
l and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars,evil aspects. Bacon. Cantsthou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion Job xxxviii. 31. She said : influence bad "…
PENTACLE n.
-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
SIGNIFICATOR n.
, signifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.
STARGASER n.
One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
STARMONGER n.
A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.