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genethliacal, a.|dʒɛnɪθˈlaɪəkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= genethliac a.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. xii. 54 This..Judicial, Conjectural, Genethliacal Astrology..God and man have condemned. 1640Howell Dodona's Grove 191 Slighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists, that use to pry into the horoscope of Nativities. 1764Char. in Ann. Reg. 30/2 He set himself about erecting the following genethliacal type in order to a presage of Thomas's future fortune. 1835Southey Doctor III. xcv. 208 An astral alphabet for genethliacal purposes was published near the close of the fifteenth century, at Cracow. 1838J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xvi. (1860) 187 This wonderful medicament is a great remedy..for all diseases, whether proceeding from terrestrial or genethliacal influences.
Hence genethˈliacally adv.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 49 How shall it, then, be believed that a mans religion or religious qualities may be genethliacally prognosticated from the starres and their influentiall constellations? 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. II. 285 The whole human race may be resolved genethliacally into the triad. 1821Scott Kenilw. xi, He was..an adept, who read the stars, and expounded the fortunes of mankind, genethliacally, as he called it, or otherwise. |