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‖ Aquarius Astr.|əˈkwɛərɪəs|
Also 5–7 Aquary.
[L. = water-carrier, subst. use of aquārius adj.: see above.]
1. One of the zodiacal constellations, giving its name to the eleventh sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters on the 21st of Jan.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. x. (1495) 314 The sygne Aquarius is the butlere of goddes and yeuyth them a water potte. c1400Epiph. (Turnb. 1843) 102 When in Aquarye Phebus schad hys lyght. 1686Goad Celest. Bod. ii. i. 141 In Aquary you see the ☌ brings Rain. 1870Proctor Other Worlds xii. 287 The Water-can of Aquarius.
2. Astrol. A person born under the sign of Aquarius. Also attrib. or as adj.
1894E. Kirk Influence of Zodiac upon Human Life xiii. 98 Aquarius people are remarkable spiritual healers. 1958[see Capricorn 1 c]. 1979D. & A. Edmands Child Signs ii. 135 Your Aquarius child may not give a fig about who's at the top of the heap. Ibid. 136 Your Aquarius may embarrass you. 1985N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Mar. vi. 82/4 ‘That has to do,’ she says, ‘with growing up freely, and being an Aquarius.’
3. Age of Aquarius, an astrological age characterized by world freedom and brotherhood, which is said to have begun during the 1960s; also used as a symbol of freedom or permissiveness.
[1940R. Gleadow Astrol. in Everyday Life i. xi. 144 The future is always associated in astrological circles with the so-called ‘Aquarian Age’. 1961J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water xix. 282 We are moving now, for we're at the end of an age, from Pisces to Aquarius, from the Fish to the Water.] 1967Ragni & ‘Rado’ Aquarius (1968) (song) 3 This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. 1970Time 6 July 6 Evangelist Billy Graham..fingered his collar-length silver-blond curls and gave his blessing to the Age of Aquarius. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone ii. 52 Cutter moved on without a backward look, slipping easily into the mid-sixties, that golden age of cant, of bare feet and acid and Aquarius. 1985Christian Science Monitor 26 Aug. 21/2 Beattie's six books..have been greeted as graceful if facile bulletins about the survivors of the Age of Aquarius. |
