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thestudyof themovementsandpositionsof thesun,moon,planets, andstarsin thebeliefthat theyaffectthecharacterandlivesofpeople 占星术;占星学- Unlikeastronomy, astrology cannot bedescribedas anexactscience.
- In astrology, a person'spersonalityissupposedtorelateto whichstarsignthey werebornunder.
- He reallybelievesthat, through astrology, you canpredictwhat willhappento you.
- She's one of thosepeoplewhobelievesin astrology andreadsherhoroscopeeveryday.
- Theauthoruses astrology to show you how toexploityourpotentialin everyareaoflife.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAstrology - astrologer
- astrological
- horoscope
- numerological
- numerologically
- numerologist
- retrograde
- sign of the zodiac
- star
- star sign
- stargaze
- stargazer
- stargazing
- transit
- zodiac
- zodiacal
(Definition ofastrologyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)astrology| American Dictionarytheancientpracticeofstudyingthemovementsandpositionsof thesun,moon,planets, andstarsin thebeliefthat theyinfluencehumanbehavior (Definition ofastrologyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofastrologyastrology The catalogue contains about 400 volumes onastrologyand astronomy.From theCambridge English Corpus Natural wisdoms like medicine,astrology, geography, and so forth came to be seen as the intellectual legacy of everyone, regardless of creed.From theCambridge English Corpus Among such thinkers,astrologyand eschatology frequently played an important role.From theCambridge English Corpus The only subject explicitly denounced isastrology: the author devotes a long paragraph to its condemnation.From theCambridge English Corpus Opponents ofastrologyand alchemy rejected those branches of knowledge in toto.From theCambridge English Corpus For that reason, he also entirely rejected judicialastrologyand any astral influences on earth.From theCambridge English Corpus She also shows that he made few references toastrology.From theCambridge English Corpus In the second group we find a series of astrological works designed to deal with the various branches ofastrology.From theCambridge English Corpus Nonetheless, it is clear from other sections of his encyclopedia, that he was much given toastrology.From theCambridge English Corpus One sign that the astronomer has learned hisastrologyis his indecision over borderline cases.From theCambridge English Corpus These scholarly endeavors are inconceivable without, in the background,astrologyas part of a popular culture drawing on techniques of science.From theCambridge English Corpus This astrological treatise concerned mainly with medicalastrologyappears to have been written, as the other components of the astrological encyclopedia, in two versions.From theCambridge English Corpus He also introduced such subjects of solid learning as philology,astrology, and mathematics to academy curriculum.From theCambridge English Corpus It, of course, can't be genuinely surprising; what follows is the planned and mainly scriptedastrologyforecast.From theCambridge English Corpus Could science, or more properly speaking - natural philosophy,astrology, geography and medicine - be dissociated from these controversies?From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/astrology## |