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- noun Magical astronomy.
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(noun) - (1) A name invented by Gaule for magical astrology; so magastromancer, one who practices magastromancy, magastromantic, pertaining to magastromancy.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
(2) Examples of the magastromancer's fatall miseries are too many to be instanc't . . . To what end serve the feigned mirables wonders of nature but to feigne the magastromantick art for the greatest mirable.
--John Gaule's Mag-Astro-Mancer; or, The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed and Puzzled, 1652
January 16, 2018