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† geˈnethliac, a. and n. Obs.
Also 6 genethliak, 7 -aque, -ake, 7–8 ack.
[Ultimately ad. Gr. γενεθλιακός belonging to one's birth or birthday (= γενέθλιος, f. γενέθλη birth, breed, race, f. *γεν- to bear, bring forth), whence late L. genethliac-us, F. généthliaque: from these the English forms are more immediately derived.]
A. adj. Relating to the casting of nativities. Also, relating to a birthday.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 67 Euery King hath a singular starre for the Ruler of his Royall life, common persons hauing only the mixtures of seuerall influences, according to their Genethliaque figures. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, xviii, When these Genethliake Rages are made out The Sober Obiects of a well-taught Mind. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xv. 98 Will not this let in all the Vanities of the Genethliaque pretension? a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxviii. 320 Genethliack and Horoscopal fool. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Genethliacum, Genethliac poem, is a composition in verse, on the birth of some prince or other illustrious person..There are also genethliac speeches or orations; made to celebrate a person's birth-day.
B. n.
1. One who calculates nativities (so L. genethliacus, Gr. γενεθλιακός).
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xi. xxiii. 214 margin, The follie of our genethliaks, or nativiti-casters. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. ix. 117, I adhere to none of your iuggling Genethliacks. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 689 Strange turns in the World's affairs, Foreseen b' Astrologers, Southsayers, Chaldeans, Learn'd Genethliacks. 1840–4W. H. Mill Obs. Gospel iii. §1 (1861) 307 The subject-matter alike of the true science of astronomers and the false lore of genethliacs.
2. pl. = genethlialogy (so L. genethliacē = Gr. *γενεθλιακή); also, horoscopes, nativities.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. vii. §3 (1622) 263 A kind of Destinie bestowed vpon those Cities, in their genethliacks, and natiuities, by the aspects and positure of the Stars. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Genethliacks, treatises about Fortune-telling, or casting nativities. 1755Johnson, Genethliacks, the science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars predominant at the birth. Hence in later Dicts.
3. A birthday ode. (= genethliacon.)
1687Winstanley Lives Eng. Poets 60 He [Leland] wrote, among many other volumes, several books of epigrams, his Cignea Cantio, a Genethliac of Prince Edward.
Hence † genethliacism, the casting of nativities.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 60 Nothing is left of its own, or peculiar to it self [astrologie], but a bare goeticall genethliacism..or casting of Nativities. |