Word Meanings - GENETHLIACS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth. Jhonson.

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• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• PREDICT
  A prediction. Shak.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CALCULATION
  1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
• BIRTHMARK
  Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PREDICTOR
  One who predicts; a foreteller.
• BIRTHING
  Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BIRTHRIGHT
  Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any
• FUTURELY
  In time to come. Raleigh.
• CALCULATOR
  One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.
• BIRTHWORT
  A genus of herbs and shrubs , reputed to have medicinal properties.
• PRESIDE
  1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. 2. To
• BIRTHNIGHT
  The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.
• BIRTHLESS
  Of mean extraction. Sir W. Scott.
• FUTURELESS
  Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.
• BIRTHROOT
  An herbaceous plant , and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
• CALCULATIVE
  Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• MISCALCULATE
  To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly. -- Mis*cal`cu*la"tion, n.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• UNPREDICT
  To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.