a. Obs. rare–1. In 7 erron. stocheio-. [f. mod.L. stoichciōmatic-us (ad. Gr. στοιχειωματικοί pl., persons who cast nativities, f. στοιχείωμα sign of the Zodiac) + -AL.] Pertaining to the casting of nativities.
1658. J. Robinson, Eudoxa, x. 55. The slow proreption of Every Sidus, out of his proper Sign almost unto the subsequent,… doth overturn the grand Pillar of Stocheiomatical Art [orig. artis stoicheiomaticæ].
So † Stoicheiomatic sb. Obs., a caster of nativities.
1662. Stanley, Hist. Chaldaick Philos., I. III. iii. (1687), 1050/1. These the Greeks term also στοιχεῖα,… and the makers of them Stoicheiomaticks.
