Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as astrological: as, “no astrologic wizard,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology.

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  • adjective Archaic form of astrological.

Etymologies

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astrology +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • In fact, when I had my first astrologic reading, the person who did it said, I have never seen anyone born in 1949 who actually went through college, med school, and residency and finished up without a big gap in between.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • All the while peddling your peculiar mix of mystic gnostic astrologic nonsense.

    As others see them - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Vasari; he leads us from its cradle to its maturity with the anxious diligence of a nurse; but he likewise has her derelictions: for more loquacious than ample, and less discriminating styles than eager to accumulate descriptions, he is at an early period exhausted by the superlatives lavished on inferior claims, and forced into frigid rhapsodies and astrologic nonsense to do justice to the greater.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

  • But, according to Prof. Leslie, it is an astrologic amulet.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • The earliest peoples who brought any culture to these shores came from the East, and we cannot tell what profundities of astrologic science they carried with them.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • The evidences for astrologic demonology in ancient Israel, when the nation was affected by Hellenism and Babylonian decadence, are found in the latter part of the "Book of the Secrets of Henoch" -- the "Book of the Course of the Lights of Heaven" -- as also previously in the fourth section which treats of Henoch's wanderings "through the secret the places of the world".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • To this dire course of action he was misled by astrologic and other signs, which he interpreted as prophecies of his own kingship, when in reality they pointed to the royal destiny of his granddaughter Bath-sheba.

    The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913

  • He believed in the influence of the stars upon men, but he enlarged upon the old astrologic faiths.

    Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912

  • But what Harris could not do was to get near to Hogarth: his task was, as it were, to pluck Venus from the firmament; but he mused, he mused upon her, with musing astrologic eye, with grand patience, fascinated by her very splendours, not without hope.

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • ` ` The event justified the astrologic prediction: George IV. died on May 18, 1830, exactly two years from the day on which he had visited the astrologer. ''

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

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