(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.
Magician
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
(2) Asked on Wednesday if it was disingenuous to say Labor axed the funding, he replied: “The Coalition are like a bunch of B-team magicians trying to make you look everywhere except where the magic trick is actually happening so you can’t work out what’s going on.
(3) Sage Gateshead, 4–7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
(4) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
(5) This article is based on the authors' book "Physician or Magician: The Myths and Realities of Patient Care" (McGraw Hill and Hemisphere, 1978).
(6) Amid the celebrations, held in front of a strange mix of celebrities that included Andy Murray, Danny Cipriani, Dynamo the magician and Katie Price, Haye was magnanimous enough to praise Chisora's durability and what he described as "one of the best chins" he has faced.
(7) His visions were sold to the city with modest pronouncements such as: “All Architects are magicians.
(8) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
(9) HIS STORY Paul Daniels, magician, 76 We met thanks to the Ayatollah.
(10) She left to set up her own company, initially called Esage Lab (“I was thinking of something ‘sage’, as in a wizard or a magician,” she said).
(11) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(12) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(13) These texts, most of them based on older texts dating possibly from 3000 B.C., are comparatively free of the magician's approach to treating illness.
(14) Alongside the pictures of Hou and Xu with Mao and other leaders, there is one of their son with the magician David Copperfield.
(15) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(16) It was an act of misdirection worthy of a cheap stage magician, shifting responsibility for economic failure onto those who were barely out of primary school when it happened, a shameless act of divide and rule.
(17) Officers working on the case believe that the level of expertise involved could show the perpetrators imported a magician or priest to carry out the ritual.
(18) The magician's forceps phenomenon as first discovered by Mitsui in exotropia is supposed to be a blocking reflex through the tendon organ.
(19) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
(20) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.