See ‘Astrology.’
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck,
And yet, methinks, I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, of seasons’ quality.
Shakespeare, Sonnets, 14.
Bowe ye not to astronomyers, neither axe ye onything of fals dyvynours.—Levit. xix. 31. Wiclif.
If astronomers say true, every man at his birth by his constellation hath divers things and desires appointed him.—Pilkington, Exposition upon the Prophet Aggeus, c. i.
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| Atonement. |
The notion of satisfaction lies now in these words rather than that of reconciliation. An ‘atonement’ is the satisfaction of a wrong which one party has committed against another, not the reconciliation of two estranged parties. This last, however, was its earlier meaning; and is in harmony with its etymology; for which see the quotation from Bishop Hall.