domification
domification noun: the division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
Noun
domification (plural domifications)
- The division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
- Physike is received as Geometry: and jugling tricks, enchantments, bonds, the commerce of deceased spirits, prognostications, domifications, yea even this ridiculous wit and wealth-consuming pursuite of the Philosophers stone, all is emploied and uttered without contradiction.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- The introduction of alternative methods of domification was already exploited in Pico's Disputationes, which questioned both the natural philosophical basis of astrological houses and the contradictions on this matter in the astrological canon.2003, Steven Vanden Broecke, The Limits of Influence, page 238
Forms of domification
| plural | domifications |
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Origin of domification
Borrowed from Middle French domification; equivalent to domify + -ification.
Questions about domification
- What does domification mean?
- Domification means the division of the heavens into twelve astrological houses; or a particular system for such division.
- What part of speech is domification?
- Domification is a noun.
- What is the plural of domification?
- The plural of domification is domifications.
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