astrology

Etymology

From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia (“astronomy”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “telling of the stars”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star, planet, or constellation”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). Morphologically astro- + -logy.

noun

  1. Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.
  2. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 274:
  3. 2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
    Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
  4. 2018-01-18, Julie Beck, “The New Age of Astrology”, in The Atlantic:

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