genethliacal

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UK/dʒɛnɪθˈlaɪəkəl/

adjective

Genethliac; relating to the casting of horoscopes based on one's birth.

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Meanings

adjectivegenethliacal (comparative more genethliacal, superlative most genethliacal)

comparative more genethliacal · superlative most genethliacal

  1. archaicGenethliac; relating to the casting of horoscopes based on one's birth.

    I may say the same of these genethliacal studies: what is astrology but vain elections, predictions?

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 4, subsection 7

Origin

From genethliac + -al.

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