astroscopy

[In Ger. astroscopie.] [AsTROSCOPE] Observation of the stars. (John son.) * a-strō'te, adv. [ASTRUT.] as-tro-the-ol-o-gy, s . [In Ger. astrotheo logie ; Gr. ἄστρον ( astron ) = a star, and θεολο γία ( theolog i a ) = theology (q.v.).] Theology founded on what is known of the heaverly bodies and the laws which regulate their movements. "That the diurnal and annual revolutions are the motions of the terraqueous globe, not of the sun, I shew in the preface of my Astro-Theology."-Derham: Physico-Theology. a-strut, *a-strō'te, adv. [Eng. a; strut (q.v.).] * A. ( Of the form astrote): In a swelling manner. "Hys yen stode owte astrote forthy." Le Bone Florence, 2,329. ( Boucher .) B. ( Of the form astrut): With a strutting gait. ( Cowper : Task , v. 268.) *ăs'-try-lābe, s. [ASTROLABE.]