单词 | horoscopy |
释义 | horoscopy|həʊˈrɒskəpɪ| [f. horoscope (or its source) + -y: cf. L. horoscopīum, -opium, Gr. ὡροσκοπεῖον, -όπιον, a horoscopic instrument, a horoscope.] a. The casting of horoscopes. b. The aspect of the heavens at a given moment, esp. at that of nativity.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 56 Sometimes in the aspect of the Starres at their Nativity; which was called Horoscopy. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 207 He had been long t'wards Mathematicks..Magick, Horoscopie, Astrologie, And was old dog at Physiologie. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. New year's coming of age, Good Days, bad Days, were so shuffled together, to the confounding of all sober horoscopy. |

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