(n.) One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(2) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
(3) The subjects are religion, astrology, history, jurisprudence and medicine.
(4) A test was made of the hypothesis that personality characteristics can be predicted on the basis of various features of the individual's astrological chart.
(5) For each personality variable, comparisons were made on a large number of astrological dimensions between distributions of Ss with and without extreme test scores.
(6) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
(7) Also not out until September is Eleanor Catton's highly wrought astrological extravaganza about a woman on trial for murder during the 19th-century New Zealand goldrush, eagerly awaited by fans of her equally dazzling debut The Rehearsal.
(8) She had read Martin Buber 's I and Thou , and the collected works of Carl Jung , and become fascinated with archetypes and astrology.
(9) And yet, when she decided to adopt a child, she chose her baby on the advice of an astrologer .
(10) This brief note deals with the development of alternative perspectives on the provocative, and as yet unexplained result of an earlier study in which groups of people born under different astrological zodiac signs were found to differ markedly in their scores on the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) scale described as a measure of "Femininity."
(11) For many people, belief in the paranormal derives from personal experience of face-to-face interviews with astrologers, palm readers, aura and Tarot readers, and spirit mediums.
(12) But Holst's approach was astrological, not astronomical, reflecting not scientific knowledge but the alleged effects of the planets on the human psyche: Jupiter the bringer of joy, Neptune the mystic and Mars the bringer of war.
(13) They say the system, used to try to detect people lying in phone calls made to 25 UK councils and a number of car insurers, is no more reliable than flipping a coin - and that millions of pounds have been spent on a technology that has not been validated scientifically, and for which the claims about its function are "at the astrology end of the validity spectrum".
(14) Patients currently presenting for treatment of mental disorder may describe their illness with reference to these concepts, but they also rely on other indigenous traditional concepts such as astrology, karma, the effects of other humoral relationships, such as semen loss and so forth; or they may rely on ideas derived from cosmopolitan medicine or both.
(16) His personal popularity became so great that it even survived the revelation that he and Nancy consulted an astrologer.
(17) On this he discussed and advocated secularism , and mocked the cruel absurdities of the Saudi religious authorities, who denounce astrologers for peddling nonsense but themselves have people executed for “sorcery”.
(18) In the paper - which has been withdrawn from the website of its publisher, Equinox Publishing, after complaints from Nemesysco's founder that it contains personal attacks - the scientists say the scientific provability of the Nemesysco code is akin to astrology.
(19) She talks of the astrological structure as being akin to a structure a composer might work within, and mentions her interest in the book Gödel Escher Bach , which explores patterns and systems in the work of the mathematician, artist and composer.
(20) Rolfe's pope is as cussed, rococo and autodidactic as his author, praying in Greek, dabbling in astrology and smoking in office.
Chaldean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
(n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.
(n.) Nestorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(2) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(3) But the Iraq-based leader of the Chaldean Catholic church, Louis Sako, said none of the worshippers had been hurt, and that he did not believe the church was the target.
(4) On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilisations.
(5) Isis has repeatedly attacked minorities in Iraq, evicting many of the country’s Chaldean Christians from their ancestral homelands in the Nineveh plains, and attempting to starve and enslave thousands of the ancient Yazidi minority.
(6) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(7) In 2008, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop was kidnapped and murdered.
(8) The Isis rampage through Iraq’s Nineveh plains forced out Chaldean Christians and other minorities from areas in which they had co-existed for nearly 2,000 years.
(9) The majority of Iraq’s Christians are part of the Chaldean church.
(10) Many of the region’s minorities, particularly Chaldean Christians, were driven from their ancestral homes out of fear of forced conversions.
(11) By chance, I was in Kurdistan making a programme shortly after and met with some Chaldean refugees who had fled in the wake of the archbishop's murder.
(12) The capital of the Kurdish north is already home to a new Chaldean Christian community, which fled Baghdad in the wake of an Isis-led massacre inside a cathedral in October 2010.
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) The Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Joseph Thomas, described the situation in northern Iraq as "catastrophic, a crisis beyond imagination".
(15) It will help foster understanding and peace.” The mixed Christian community in Turkey is very small, estimated at about 80,000 in a country of 75 million, and only the few Roman Catholics and Chaldeans regard the pope as their spiritual leader.
(16) Waves of attacks on Christians since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam have eroded its once sizeable Christian population, mainly from the Assyrian and Chaldean denominations.
(17) If it’s a five-year-old orphan or a child, or if it’s a 90-year-old woman who’s coming to this country, if this is an established leader of the Chaldean religion, someone that we know about that you can vet, common sense says, OK, you can vet them,” Rubio told the Guardian in an interview last week.