starcraft

plural starcrafts

1. uncountableusuallyThe art of interpreting or reading the stars; astrology.

   They were the keepers of starcraft, runecraft, lorecraft and wortcraft and they guided many through the darkness of the future and healed bodies and minds.

   1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, →ISBN, page 16

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   On the same morning, almost the same hour, / Under the selfsame aspect of the stars, / (Oh falsehood of all starcraft!) we were born. / How like each other was the birth of each!

   1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, page 18

plural starcrafts

1. space flightA vehicle which travels to or among the stars.

   Synonyms: spacecraft