astrologistn.
/əˈstrɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /əˈstrɑlədʒəst/ rare before 19th cent.
A practitioner of astrology; = astrologer n. 1a. Also: an astronomer; = astrologer n. 1b (rare).Less common than astrologer and not the preferred term amongst practitioners.
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astronomienc1330
astrologianc1400
astrologue1487
calker1535
mathematical1545
mathematiciana1576
mathematist1579
astrologer1581
artist1584
mathematicc1604
astrologomage1635
astrologist1683
1681 H. More Tetractys Anti-astrologica xvii. 146 It seems then with the Doctor..these Devils can kill whom and when they list, and that as well Saints as Sinners, and the Anti-Astrologists as well as the Philo-Astrologists.]
1683 J. Barnard Theologo-historicus 25 A most excellent Astrologist!
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. 425/1 He [sc. Ptolemy] was an Egyptian astrologist, and flourished under Marcus Antoninus.
1866 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 8 June The Great English Astrologist, Clairvoyant, and Psychometrician..has now located herself at Hudson, N.Y.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 159/1 He could always make sure by consulting, for a small fee, the phrenologists, physiognomists, astrologists, palmists, and fortune-tellers.
1949 ‘J. Macdonald’ Moving Target iv. 30 Does he go to a particular astrologist? The woods are full of them.
1978 Economist 4 Feb. 117/3 He is thought to have been the illegitimate son of an itinerant astrologist.
1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xxv. 523/1 The astrologist and mathematician al-Imran..wrote a commentary on Abu Kamil's algebra.
2001 Daily Tel. 4 May i. 16/2 Protesters waved the flag of Byzantium and handed out leaflets depicting the Pope as seeking to destroy Orthodoxy in cahoots with Jews, Anglicans, astrologists and idol-worshippers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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