astrolithology

(Gr. ἄστρον (astron) = a star, λίθος ( lithos ) = a stone, and λόγος ( logos ) = a discourse. [A name proposed by Profe or Shepard to designate the science which treats of meteorites or aërolites. ( Sowerby: Popular Mineralogy, 1850; Aërolites, p. 218.) *ăs-tro-log, *ǎs'-tro-logue, s . [Fr. as trologue , from Lat, astrologus , from αστρολόγος ( astrologos ) = an astronomer: ἄστρον (astron) = a star, and λέγω ( lego ) = to tell, to speak of.] As astronomer. "It war gret mastry Till ony astrolog to say This pall fall heir and on this day." Barbour: Bruce, iv. 707. as-trol-ô-ger, * as-trol-o-gere, s . [Eng. astrolog(y); -er.] [ASTROLOGY.] *1. Originally : An astronomer. "A worthy astrologer , by perspective gla es, hath found in the stars many things unknown to the ancients.-Raleigh. As most, if not all, the ancient astronomers believed that the heavenly bodies have an influence upon human destinies; and any one who predicted fortunes from the position of the stars, required to study their movements, no need was at first felt for drawing a distinction between an astronomer and an astrologer in the modern sense of these terms. 2. Subsequently and now: An astrologer, as contradistinguished from an astronomer. A man of unscientific mind who studies the heavenly bodies, not to ascertain the laws which affect their existence and movements, but in the vain hope of forecasting the future destiny of himself or others. "This made the astrologers so idle as to judze of a man's nature and destiny, by by the constellation of the moment of his nativity or conception." Bacon : Colours of Good and Evil , ch. x. the astrologers, the star-gazers, and monthly prognosticators,..."- / sa. xlvii. 13.