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falling house
falling house n. [after post-classical Latin domus cadens (13th cent. in Bartholomaeus Anglicus)] Astrology (now rare) (chiefly in plural) the last house of each quadrant of the zodiac; also called cadent house (see cadent adj. 2).A planet passing into a falling house is generally considered by astrologers to have a lower degree of influence than when located in the first house of the quadrant (the angular or cardinal house) or the second house (the succedent house).
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ix. 464 Þe oþir signes beþ iclepid domus cadentesfallynge houses’.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxvi. f. 232 Those that goe next before any of the foure principall Angles are called falling houses.
1726 S. Penseyre New Guide Astrol. 14 The next that follow those principal Angles are called Succeedent Houses; and next to them are term'd Cadents and falling Houses.
1887 London Soc. Mar. 290 The remaining third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth were ‘cadent’ or falling houses.
2007 J. Frawley Sports Astrol. 195 Mars is in a cadent (falling) house; the Sun is in its fall: similar testimonies.
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