alchochoden

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alchochoden

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect, astrology) The planet which bears rule in the principal places of an astrological figure when a person is born.
    • 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. [], London: [] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot [], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      To his judicial astrology , And trowl the Trine , the Quartile , and the Sextile , Platic aspect , and Partile , with his Hyleg , Or Alchochoden , Cuspes , and Horoscope

References[edit]

  • Thomas Wright (1857) Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English, volume 1, page 47