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astrologer (n.)
late 14c., from
astrology
+
-er
(1). Drove out French import
astrologein
, which, had it survived, probably would have yielded
*astrologian
, as in Chaucer's "The wise Astrologen." Earliest recorded reference is to roosters as announcers of sunrise.