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单词 birdgazer
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birdgazer
birdgazer n. Obsolete a person who divines by means of the flight and cries of birds; an augur, a prophet.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by birds, augury > [noun] > one who practises
bird-conjurera1382
bird-speller1571
birdgazer1576
birdwatcher1712
orneoscopist1727
orniscopist1755
1576 W. Blandie tr. J. Osório Fiue Bks. iii. f. Bb.2 What say you to straunge sightes, monsters, the aunswers of Birdgazers, and Southsayers, what greate force haue they to rebate and appaule the courage of men?
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxii. 383 Cato wondered how two Birdgazers could meete..or looke one vpon another without laughing.
1870 S. Thelwall tr. Tertullian Writings III. 200 Other scientific arts of public utility I boast. From my store are clothed..the astrologer, and the birdgazer.
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