genethliacally

Updated: May 9, 2025

He was not only a bold, adventurous practitioner in physic, but also, if your pleasure so chanced to be, an adept who read the stars, and expounded the fortunes of mankind, genethliacally, as he called it, or otherwise. He was a learned distiller of simples, and a profound chemist made several efforts to fix mercury, and judged himself to have made a fair hit at the philosopher's stone.

Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth