astromancy

[ as-truh-man-see ]

noun

1. divination by means of the stars.

Other Words From

• astro·mancer noun
• astro·mantic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of astromancy¹

1645–55; < Medieval Latin astromantīa < Greek astromanteía. See astro-, -mancy

Example Sentences

In three parts, spiritual, celestial and elemental; containing the occult powers of the Angels of Astromancy....

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All harmoniously united and opperated by Astromancy and Geomancy....

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He lent one ten pounds gold, he in requital or return speaks ill of him, and pretends to know many admirable rules of Geomancy, and impertinently addes them to Nativities, and applyes them to all manner of questions in Astromancy, but his books being written so long since, viz., seventeen years by himself, their greediness of great matters is discovered, and we now know them to be neither scholars nor gentlemen, these hang up clouts with—here are Nativities calculated, questions resolved, and all the parts of Astrology taught by us....

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The sixth for Count Gramont when he was banished into England by the King of France, and he predicted by the Arts of Astromancy and Geomancy, the King’s receiving again into favour, and of his marriage to the Lady Hamilton.

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This John Heydon, fears none, contemneth none, is ignorant of none, rejoyceth in none, grieves at none, laughs at none, is angry with none, but being himself a Philosopher, he hath taught the way to happiness, the way to long life, the way to health, the way to wane young being old, and the way to resolve all manner of Questions, Present and to Come, by the Rules of Astromancy and Geomancy, and how to raise the Dead.

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