| 单词 | the house of the ascendant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe house of the ascendant 1. Astrology. The point of the ecliptic, or degree of the zodiac, which at any moment (esp. at the birth of a child) is just rising above the eastern horizon; the horoscope. the house of the ascendant includes 5 degrees of the zodiac above this point and 25 below it. the lord of the ascendant: any planet within the house of the ascendant. (The ascendant and its lord were supposed to exercise a special influence upon the life of a child then born.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > ascendant ascendantc1386 horoscopec1400 mountanta1500 significator1593 c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 613 Min ascendent was Taur, and Mars therinne (cf. Man of Lawes T. 204). c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 18 The assendent, & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan þat no wykkid planete, as saturne or Mars, or elles the tail of the dragoun, is in [the] hows of the assendent. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiii. 619 They say that Jesus in his natiuitie, had for his ascendent, the signe of Virgo. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 179 At my Nativity my Ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpio. View more context for this quotation 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. iii. 300 The most important part of the sky in the astrologer's consideration, was that sign of the zodiac which rose at the moment of the child's birth; this was, properly speaking, the horoscope, the ascendant, or the first house. < as lemmas |
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