| 单词 | starmonger | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarmonger  b.   In designations (sometimes humorous or derogatory) of an astrologer or astronomer, as  star-catcher,  star-clerk,  star man,  star-master,  starmonger,  star-peeper, etc. See also star-shooter n. at  Compounds 5, star finder n. (a) at  Compounds 5.Particularly common in 17th cent.				 [Compare e.g. Middle Low German stērnkīker, lit. ‘star-looker’, Middle High German sternbiduiter, lit. ‘star-interpreter’, sternpfaffe, lit. ‘star cleric’, sternseher, lit. ‘star-seer’, all in sense ‘astrologer’.]			 ΚΠ OE    Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. 		(Domitian A.i)	 in  A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 		(1900)	 220/2  				Mathematici, steorwigleras. 1575    G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre xv, in  Posies sig. Hiiv  				If Mars mooue warre, as Starcoonners can tel. 1583    P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H7v  				As these foolish starre tooters promised. 1600    B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor  iii. ii. sig. Kv  				These star-monger knaues, who would trust  'hem?       View more context for this quotation 1605    J. Sylvester tr.  G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks.  i. iii. 91  				If at the least Star-Clarkes be credit-worth. 1620    J. Melton Astrologaster 24  				Hearing a Starre-catcher make a long..discourse about the Celestiall Signes. 1654    T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 4  				So would I fain know of this great Star-master, how it comes to pass, that [etc.]. 1678    Quacks Acad. 6  				You must either pretend to be Waterologers, or Ass-trologers, or Piss-prophets, or Starr-Wizards. a1714    B. Tompson Poems 		(1980)	 133  				This prodigious stroke of Cruell fate..proves Star-prophets sometimes in the darke. 1756    B. Bright's New Jrnl. 6  				We have..introduced important Matters, overlooked by former Starmongers. 1836    R. Furness Astrologer  ii, in  Wks. 		(1858)	 149  				Which brought the star-man to the realms below. 1877    C. W. Shields Final Philos. iii. 110  				Luther..denounced the star-peepers and horoscope mongers who plead Scripture authority for their haphazard work and idolatry. 1904    S. Dill Rom. Society  iv. i. 447  				Augustus himself received a similar forecast from Theagenes, a star-reader of Apollonia. 1963    J. Needham in  A. C. Crombie Sci. Change v. 146  				Nothing from Greece, only the nova, comet and meteor lists of China's star-clerks. 2011    N.Y. Times 		(Nexis)	 15 Jan.  a11  				Monty Taylor, a veteran star man from Manhattan, said he and other astrologers were e-mailing. < as lemmas | 
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