[meteorite-list] OT: History of the word DISASTER= negative influences of the star(s)

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 1 11:02:35 2005
Message-ID: <20050901150233.26152.qmail_at_web53210.mail.yahoo.com>

List,
  After writing my last post concerning disaster
response it dawned on me that the word disaster
contains the word "star", ASTER. So, with some
looking in the Dictionary of Word Origins by
Merriam-Webster I found that the word first came into
common use during the time of Shakespeare and was used
by him in several of his lines. The word disaster
comes from the meaning of "negative influences of the
star(s)" and had its orgins in the study of astrology.
  Dirk Ross...Tokyo

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