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aˈstrologist, n. Chiefly N. Amer.
[f. astrology n.1 + -ist.]
= astrologer n. 3 (though less frequent and not the preferred term amongst practitioners).
1954Life 5 Apr. 143/2 Carroll Righter is a Hollywood astrologer or, as he prefers to be called, an astrologian. He detests being called an astrologist. ‘An astrologist is a quack,’ he says. 1962N.Y. Times 2 Feb. 4/8 Hindu holy men began a new series of prayers..with the hope that their efforts will ward off the disaster predicted for the week-end by astrologists. 1978Economist 4 Feb. 117/3 Records of his birth were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake, but he is thought to have been the illegitimate son of an itinerant astrologist. 1985Washington Post 20 Oct. d6/3, I side pretty steadily with history's eccentrics. ‘I don't mean all the mad astrologists and mystics..but simply the mundane eccentrics.’ |