单词 | astrognosy |
释义 | astrognosyn. Now rare. Knowledge of the stars; the branch of astronomy concerned with the fixed stars. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > stars > [noun] uranography1675 astrography1735 astrognosyc1818 astrogony1869 c1818 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 557 His imperfect Astrognosy reduced him to the shift of including the Moon, imagining an Αntiχθων and taking the whole as a completory Unit. 1826 F. R. Hassler Pop. Expos. Syst. Universe iv. i. 164 This part of practical astronomy [sc. enumerating, recollecting, and finding constellations]..is designated by the name of Astrognosy. 1844 J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller Introd. Sci. Syst. Mythology 327 There is nothing in this mythic cycle which clearly and distinctly requires to be interpreted by means of Astrognosy. 1893 J. O'Neill Night of Gods I. 504 Here therefore is the place to insert a parenthetic but no means idle leaf in illustration of the high rank of Sirius in myth and in astrognosy. 1964 F. O'Brien Dalkey Arch. ii. 12 Well I'm a theologist and a physicist, sciences which embrace many others such as eschatology and astrognosy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1818 |
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