genethlialogyn.

1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem i. 22 Both iudiciarie Astrologie, and Genethlialogie, the casting of mens natiuities, and..diuination by the dead, are held to haue beene inuented by the Chaldeans.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iii. §2 The Chaldeans did so hold to Astronomy still, that they wholly rejected Genethlialogy.

1708 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) Genethliology, telling mens fortunes by casting their nativities.

1715 in T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) II. v. 521 Eudoxus is said to have been the first, who from the Egyptians brought Astronomy to his Countreymen the Greeks: and Berosus to have brought into Greece the Science of Genethlialogy from his Countreymen the Chaldeans.

1813 J. Rendle Hist. Tiberius iii. xi. 398 Certain Chaldeans..were..undervalued, for studying genethlialogy.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §186. 168 The Chaldæan Genethliology.

1862 G. C. Lewis Astron. Anc. v. 13 Herodotus makes no allusion to any connexion with the stars in the Egyptian genethlialogy of his time.

1922 F. Cumont After Life in Rom. Paganism 1923 iii. 92 This doctrine of rudimentary astrology was incorporated in the general system of learned genethlialogy.

1961 Harvard Stud. Classical Philo. 65 367 At least one Greek astrological manual was translated into Sanskrit, and..this translation..formed the basis of Indian Genethlialogy.

2002 Classical Jrnl. 98 203 The Babylonian origins..have little to do with what we primarily mean with ‘astrology’, namely individual horoscopes (genethlialogy).

1860 Sat. Rev. 10 363/2 The third is a comparatively modern genethlialogic work.