Meanings
comparative more apotelesmatic · superlative most apotelesmatic
- obsoleteastrologyRelating to the casting of horoscopes.
It will easily be supposed that when this apotelesmatic or judicial astrology obtained firm possession of men's minds, it would be pursued into innumerable subtle distinctions and extravagant conceits
1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences - Relating to an issue of fulfilment.
In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment.
1852 July, Moses Stuart, “Observations on Matthew 24:29-31”, in The Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀποτελεσματικός
- Englishapotelesmatic
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτελεσματικός (apotelesmatikós), from ἀποτέλεσμα (apotélesma, “effect of the stars on human destiny”). Morphologically, from apotelesm + -atic.
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