genethliacal
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From genethliac + -al.
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genethliacal (comparative more genethliacal, superlative most genethliacal)
- (archaic) Genethliac; relating to the casting of horoscopes based on one's birth.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, I.2.4.vii:
- I may say the same of these genethliacal studies: what is astrology but vain elections, predictions?