astrologize

Verb

astrologize (third-person singular simple present astrologizes, present participle astrologizing, simple past and past participle astrologized)

1. (intransitive) 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
   • She remained with Hermes for a long time, engaged in astrologizing or weaving spells:1844, Richard Bedingfield, chapter 79, in The Peer and the Blacksmith, London: R. Thompson, page 466

   Synonyms:

   prognosticate

2. (transitive) 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
   • Ever since I was astrologized, bad luck has followed me like my shadow,1909, O. Henry, “Phœbe”, in Roads of Destiny, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 93
3. (transitive) 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
   • The ancient gods had gradually come to be astrologized, and the planets had developed personalities […]1979, Douglas Gray, chapter 5, in Robert Henryson, Leiden: Brill, page 181