Middle English Dictionary Entry
astroloǧīe n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | astroloǧīe n.(1) |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The Medieval science of astronomie [q.v.], including astronomy and astrology; also, a treatise on this subject; kindeli ~, astronomy; unkindeli ~, astrology; (b) astrology; prediction of future events, destiny, or fate by inference from the configuration of celestial bodies.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.207 : Marcianus seiþ in his Astrologie, þat Capricornus þe goot makeþ somer to þe Antipodes, and þe Crabbe makiþ to hem wynter.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.289 : Abraham lernede in Caldea, and went doun in to Egipte, and was þe firste þat tauȝte þe Egipcians ars metrick and astrologie [L astrologiam]..vnknowe to hem to fore honde.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)155a/b : Þat oweþ somwhat to be an astrologien or speke of astrologie.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)284 : Come forthe, maister, that loken vp so ferre With instrumentis of astronomy To take the grees & hight of eueri sterre! What mai a-vaile al ȝowre astrologie Sith [of] Adam alle the genelegye..Dethe dothe a-reste?
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)introd.119 : An introductorie..in which thou maist lerne a gret part of the generall rewles of theorik in astrologie.
- ?1480 Court Sap.(Caxton)2098 : The mayd Astrologye, Whiche somtyme is kyndely and precyous, And otherwhyle ouer-moche superstyous. She is kyndely, whan that she sheweth clere The sonnes cours..But whan she lust in sterres for to seke The byrthe of man..And wyl dyuyne..thyng for to be, Vnkyndely than and vnleful is she.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3192 : A poure scoler, Had lerned art, but al his fantasie Was turned for to lerne astrologye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3514 : I haue yfounde in myn astrologye, As I haue looked in the moone bright, That now a Monday next at quarter nyght Shal falle a reyn.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.680 : Assembled with Astronomie Is ek that ilke Astrologie, The which in juggementz acompteth Theffect, what every sterre amonteth, And hou thei causen many a wonder To tho climatz that stonde hem under.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1266 : To make illusioun By swich an apparence or iogelrye -- I ne kan no termes of astrologye.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)20079 : I am callyd Astrologye, The tother part, Astronomye. And be-cause I telle more Than Astronomye dyde off yore, Off ffolk to me-ward envyous Calle me superstycyous.
- ?1480 Court Sap.(Caxton)2193 : Astrologye and her queynt obseruaunce Folk of Calde fyrst sought and brought to mynde.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)66/5 : Þis seconde partye [of Astronomye] ys clepyd Astrologie or science of Iugementz.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)1681 : With astrologie Ioine elementes also, to fortune theyr workynge as they go.