Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to one's birthday or nativity; specifically, in astrology, pertaining to nativities as calculated by astrologers; relating to genitures or to the doctrine of them; showing the positions of the stars at the birth of any person. Also
genethliacal . - noun A birthday poem. Also
genethliacon . - noun One who is versed in genethlialogy.
- noun plural Same as
genethlialogy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.
- noun A birthday poem.
- noun One skilled in genethliacs.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the casting of
horoscopes at a person's birth - noun A person who casts horoscopes
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Examples
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Whereof a right pregnant instance by them is given in the nativities of Aeneas and Choroebus; the latter of which two is by Euphorion said to have been a fool, and yet had with the former the same aspects and heavenly genethliac influences.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Whereof a right pregnant instance by them is given in the nativities of Aeneas and Choroebus; the latter of which two is by Euphorion said to have been a fool, and yet had with the former the same aspects and heavenly genethliac influences.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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'That is a question,' he said, 'to put to your astrologer, your oneirocritic, your genethliac.
Veranilda George Gissing 1880
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He wrote it down in the native tongue about forty years ago, as recited by an _ah-kih_, “reader of days,” a native master of the genethliac art, who had composed it in favor of a client who had asked his intercession.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Doubtless this was partly attributable to the scarcity of food which prevailed; but that the authorities traced it also to some secret ceremonials is evident from the law which was immediately passed forbidding the Indians to wear the _piochtli_, or scalp-lock, a portion of the hair preserved from birth as part of the genethliac rituals, [32-§] and the especial enactments against the _octli_.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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The star which looked upon a child at the hour of his birth, was called the horoscopus, and the peculiar influence of each planet was determined by professors of the genethliac art.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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Whereof a right pregnant instance by them is given in the nativities of Aeneas and Choroebus; the latter of which two is by Euphorion said to have been a fool, and yet had with the former the same aspects and heavenly genethliac influences.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Really it must be admitted that only in England and America is there anybody who knows how to establish the genethliac theme and construct a horoscope. "
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
hernesheir commented on the word genethliac
Also genethliacal.
November 20, 2010
erinmckean commented on the word genethliac
dearest ruzuzu
our genethliac wishes
for a happy day
April 22, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word genethliac
Aww! Thank you!
Totally *favorited*
April 22, 2013