单词 | astrometeorology |
释义 | astrometeorologyn. Now chiefly historical. The study of the (supposed) influence on the weather and climate of planetary and stellar phenomena, such as sunspots, the phases of the moon, comets, and planetary conjunctions.Astrometeorology was earlier subsumed within (natural) astrology. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > [noun] > astro-meteorology astrometeorology1817 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > specific method aeromancy1608 astrology1681 aeroscopy1755 astrometeorology1817 aeroscepsy1835 1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere 113 Mr. John Goad..hath an Elaborate Treatise now in the Press, entituled Astro-Meteorologica, i.e. Aphorisms Physical and Astrological in two Parts: The first whereof inquires into the Natures of the Planets, Sun, Moon, &c. The second observes the Nature also of the fixed Stars.] 1817 Philos. Mag. 49 135 But to return to Astro-meteorology. An infallible scale of the weather has not been produced in modern times. 1862 Scot. Rev. 402 Men had transformed Astro-meteorology into meteorology, or weather-lore into the science of the Atmosphere. 1932 Classical Weekly 25 186/2 There was much astro-meteorology in antiquity. 1989 Picture (Sydney) 22 Aug. 54/1 Using what she calls ‘astrometeorology’..Lawson has such an uncanny success record a Texas TV station wants her to return to the US to make further forecasts. 2003 L. Taub Anc. Meteorol. ii. 18 Ancient Greek astrometeorology depended quite literally upon a harmony of the cosmos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1817 |
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