Obs. Also -yen, astromyen. [a. OF. astronomien, f. astronomie or L. astronomia, like chrestien, italien, as if repr. a L. *astronomiānus. Astromyen was a phonetic reduction. Cf. astrologien, -an.] The earlier word for ASTRONOMER (including astrologer).
c. 1300. K. Alis., 136. He is an astromyen.
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 9. Astronomyenes byhaldes þe daye, and þe houre, and þe poynte þat man es borne in.
1388. Wyclif, Matt. ii. 1. Lo! astromyenes camen fro the eest to Jerusalem.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 230. Which was an astronomien, And eke a great magicien.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 403/2. The kyng … assemblid lx astronomyens.
c. 1500. Partenay, 12. Neuer better astronomian might be.
