ˈfigure-ˌflinger
A contemptuous synonym of figure-caster 1.
| 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1271 Simon Penbrooke..a figureflinger, and vehementlie suspected to be a coniurer. 1652–62 Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1674) 113/1 Every Astrologaster or Figure-flinger was called a chaldean. 1712 Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 407 Mr. Gadbury the Figure Flinger mentions the Custom in one of his Almanacks. |
So ˈfigure-ˌflinging vbl. n. = figure-casting.
| a 1625 Boys Wks. (1629) 734 Not by starre-gazing, or figure-flinging, or conjuring, or any curious act. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 60 A fantasticall figure-flinging. 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. |