n.
- The study of the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs.
- Obsolete. Astronomy.
[Middle English astrologie, from Old French, from Latin astrologia, from Greek astrologiā : astro-, astro- + -logiā, -logy.]
astrologer as·trol'o·ger n.astrological as'tro·log'i·cal (ăs'trə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) or as'tro·log'ic adj.
astrologically as'tro·log'i·cal·ly adv.
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