astrology English · revision 1057

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/ ''(UK)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|astrologie]],^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate) [[bor|fro|astrologie]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) [[der|la|astrologia|t=astronomy]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) [[der|grc|ἀστρολογία|tr=astrología|t=astronomy, literally a telling of the stars]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) [[af|grc|ἄστρον|-λογία|tr1=ástron|tr2=-logía|t1=star|t2=study of]].^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Practical astronomy, the application of knowledge of the heavens to human uses: “natural astrology”, foretelling such things as tides and eclipses (1375), and “judicial astrology”, judging the influence of the stars on human affairs (1393).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word was at first used of the whole study of the heavens, including what is now [[astronomy]].^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(RHWU) English began to distinguish the two words in the late 15th century,^(Etymonline) the natural phenomena passing into the domain of astronomy,^(OED 1989) and by the late 17th century ''astrology'' was limited to reading the influence of the stars on human destiny.^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) The sense “astronomy” is now obsolete or archaic.^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1375 – ''astrologie'', natural astrology, calculation of natural phenomena.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * c. 1385 – ''astrologer''.^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1393 – judicial astrology, divination from the stars.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1660 – astronomy (now obsolete).^(OED 1989)

+ * late 17th century – restricted to the influence of the stars on human affairs.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The study of the positions and aspects of the stars and [[planet|alt=planets]] in the belief that they influence natural events and human affairs; a form of [[divination]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(archaic)'' [[Astronomy]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[astrologer]]

+ * [[astrologically]]

+ * [[astrological]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[astronomy]]

+ * [[astral]]

+ * [[disaster]]

+ * [[horoscope]]

+ * [[zodiac]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}