astrologise
astrologise is the alternative spelling of astrologize.
Meaning of astrologize
Verb
astrologize (third-person singular simple present astrologizes, present participle astrologizing, simple past and past participle astrologized)
- To study or practise astrology; to attempt to foretell the future using astrology.
- you […] wander’d up and down Moor-fields Astrologizing upon the duration of His Majesties Government1673, Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transprosed, The Second Part, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 312
- Synonyms:
- prognosticate
- To attempt to foretell the future of (someone) using astrology, to read or cast (someone's) horoscope.
- […] the physician must be watchful, and stethoscopists should be silent, that no depressing word may fall upon the patient’s ear. In truth they had better cease the old practice of astrologizing the patient altogether. […] If you prophesy the patient’s death, should he be laboring under some...1850, Andrew Jackson Davis, “What Is the Philosophy of Healing?”, in The Great Harmonia, volume 1, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, pages 330–331
- To make (something) astrological; to interpret (something) in the light of astrology.
- And where Gerson tried to theologize astrology, that is, to render astrology acceptable to theologians, our author essays rather to astrologize theology and make theologians accept astrology.1934, Lynn Thorndike, chapter 50, in A History of Magic and Experimental Science, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, page 258
Forms of astrologise
| third-person singular present | astrologises |
|---|---|
| present participle | astrologising |
| past participle | astrologised |
| past | astrologised |
Questions about astrologise
- What is astrologise the alternative spelling of?
- Astrologise is the alternative spelling of astrologize.
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