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单词 astromancy
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astromancyn.

Brit. /ˈastrə(ʊ)mansi/, U.S. /ˈæstrəˌmænsi/
Forms: 1500s estromancy, 1600s astromancie, 1600s 1800s– astromancy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin astromantia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin astromantia divination by the stars, astrology (1587 or earlier) < Hellenistic Greek ἀστρομαντεία < ancient Greek ἄστρο- astro- comb. form + Hellenistic Greek -μαντεία -mancy comb. form.With the use in quot. 1652 compare magastromancy n. at magastromancer n. Derivatives, in the same source.
Divination by means of the planets and stars; astrology.
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the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > [noun]
judicial astrologyc1560
astromancy1570
uranomancy1658
siderism1843
sideromancy1859
1570 Examynacion John Bowckeley 28 July in Archaeologia (1866) 40 392 Such bookes as this examynate hadde towching the art of estromancy gematry and alcamistrye the sayd Mr Cooper toke and sent..unto the court.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 What difference betwixt Astromancy, Magomancy, or Magastromancy..and all these?
1822 Eclectic Rev. May 454 Their traditions.., and other peculiarities of the Zafe Hibrahim, their necromancy and astromancy, as well as their written language, may all, perhaps, be referred to the Arabs and the Moors.
1886 K. Cook Fathers Jesus I. 98 One of the mages..who are related to have discovered by astromancy the cradle of his birth.
1947 A. Caldecott Not exactly Ghosts 15 Even on Christmas day the Rector focussed his remarks on the astromancy of the Magi instead of on the sublime purpose of their journey.
2001 A. Versluis Esoteric Origins Amer. Renaissance iii. 28 This kind of astromancy might seem to be in conflict with at least some forms of New England Christianity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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