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Catholic vs Astrology - What's the difference?

catholic | astrology |

As nouns the difference between catholic and astrology

is that catholic is a member of a catholic church while astrology is divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body|celestial bodies.

As an adjective catholic

is of the western christian church, as differentiated from eg the orthodox church.

catholic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Universal; all-encompassing.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
  • Essentially, and in idea, the empire, in the minds of the Romans, was world-wide. This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic ’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.
  • Pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes, proclivities etc.; liberal.
  • He has catholic tastes.
  • Synonyms

    * universal

    astrology

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
  • a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
  • For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
  • * 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
  • Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.

    Synonyms

    * , astromancy

    See also

    * astronomy