The action of gazing at or studying the stars.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 205. At such time as he went out a stargazing.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 63. One beginning of Idolatrie did arise of this curious and superstitious Starre-gazing.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Little Bartas, 381. Wks. (Grosart), II. 88. Who, by Star-gazing, or ought else below, Dare arrogate the Future to foreknow.
1878. Lockyer (title), Stargazing, past and present.
1884. F. Harrison, in 19th Cent., March, 501. Religion is not a thing of star-gazing and staring, but of life and action.
