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单词 genethliacal
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genethliacaladj.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛnᵻθˈlʌɪəkl/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛnəθˈlaɪək(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s genethliacall, 1600s– genethliacal.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin genethliacus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin genethliacus genethliac adj. + -al suffix1. Compare genethliac adj.
Relating to the forecasting of a person's character and future life and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person's birth; spec. designating the branch of astrology concerned with this. Also: practising genethlialogy.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xii. 54 This..Judicial, Conjectural, Genethliacal Astrology..God and man have condemned.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 191 Slighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists, that use to pry into the horoscope of Nativities.
1670 J. Beale Let. 12 Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 191 I conceive the Astrology of the wise & sober in the East was not Fimbriated with the triffles Genethliacal, but attended to new & extraordinary Apparitions.
1701 J. Edwards Free Disc. conc. Truth & Error viii. 263 There is no Basis for the Genethliacal part of Astrology, i.e. the passing judgment on Nativities.
1764 Char. in Ann. Reg. 30/2 He set himself about erecting the following genethliacal type in order to a presage of Thomas's future fortune.
1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 208 An astral alphabet for genethliacal purposes was published near the close of the fifteenth century, at Cracow.
1861 ‘Zadkiel’ Hand-bk. Astrol. I. xii. 39 The moon is..the most powerful significator, either in mundane, genethliacal, or hororary astrology.
1932 Speculum 7 147 If, instead of turning to Aristotle..he had looked to astrology and to Ptolomy..the two ‘mistakes’ of Dante..would have then become two elements of the genethliacal practice.
1981 R. W. Bastedo in K. Frazier Paranormal Borderlands of Sci. 243 Genethliacal astrologers construct and interpret personalized, lifelong horoscopes known as ‘natal charts’.
1988 Astrol. & White House 6/1 Natal or Genethliacal astrology..the most widely practiced astrology in the United States.
2003 K. Borris Same-sex Desire Eng. Renaissance (2004) iv. 160 The former includes all ‘judicial astrology’: efforts to predict the stars' influence such as genethliacal analysis of an individual's nativity to produce a horoscope.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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