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Figure-flinger. World English Historical Dictionary

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Figure-flinger. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Figure-flinger A contemptuous synonym of FIGURE-CASTER 1.

1 1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1271. Simon Penbrooke … a figureflinger, and vehementlie suspected to be a coniurer.

2 1652–62.  Heylin, Cosmogr., III. (1674), 113/1. Every Astrolagaster or Figure-flinger was called a Chaldean.

3 1712.  Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), III. 407. Mr. Gadbury the Figure Flinger mentions the Custom in one of his Almanacks.

4   So Figure-flinging vbl. sb. = FIGURE-CASTING.

5 1622.  J. Boys, Wks., 736. Not by starre-gazing, or figure-flinging, or conjuring, or any curious Art.

6 1652.  Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία, the Mag-astro-mancer, 60. A fantasticall figure-flinging.

7 1723.  Hearne, in Rem., 1 July (ed. 2), II. 165. Being much addicted to astrology, he gave over his trade and set up the trade of figure flinging and publishing of almanacks.

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