Astroscopy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Astroscopy is a noun meaning Any of various systems of prognostication by means of the planets and stars other than astrology involving the zodiac.
Meaning
Any of various systems of prognostication by means of the planets and stars other than astrology involving the zodiac.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) observation of the stars
Example Sentences
If the signs of the times are read aright by those most skilled in such astroscopy, the Board will not long languish for the want of such medication.
Moreover his astroscopy convinced him that the cause of all this was the fact that, many centuries before, the hill summit had been the site of Druidic ceremonies —black magic practices with a ghastly and evil ritual.
That astroscopy, or the inspection of the stars, furnished practical aids to navigation and other pursuits from very early times, is not questioned; but astroscopy is no more astronomy than it is the science of electricity to watch the play of the lightning in the clouds.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include observatorium, aster, episcopy, orbitude, stare, ouroscopy.
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