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  • noun Plural form of geniture.

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Examples

  • Antinous, Nero Sporus, &c. The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets; [4528]

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [4762] Plutarch interprets astrologically that tale of Mars and Venus, in whose genitures ♂ and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Such as have the moon, Saturn, Mercury misaffected in their genitures, such as live in over cold or over hot climes: such as are born of melancholy parents; as offend in those six non-natural things, are black, or of a high sanguine complexion, [1047] that have little heads, that have

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Astrologers, quoth my father, know better than us both: — the trine and sextil aspects have jumped awry, — or the opposite of their ascendents have not hit it, as they should, — or the lords of the genitures (as they call them) have been at bo-peep, — or something has been wrong above, or below with us.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Astrologers, quoth my father, know better than us both: — the trine and sextil aspects have jumped awry, — or the opposite of their ascendents have not hit it, as they should, — or the lords of the genitures (as they call them) have been at bo-peep, — or something has been wrong above, or below with us.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • That there are some persons in whom the psychic faculties are more prone to activity than in others is certain, and it would appear also that these faculties are native in some by spiritual or hereditary succession, which fact is evident from their genitures as interpreted by astrology.

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • That there are some in whom the psychic faculties are more prone to activity than in others is certain, as also some in whom these powers are native, by spiritual or hereditary succession; all of which may be determined from their genitures by the astrological art.

    How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

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