Nostradamus, a celebrated astrologer, the assumed name of Michel de Notredame, born at St. Remi, Provence; was a medical man by profession, but gave himself to divination, uttered in rhymes in a series of published predictions called “Centuries” (1503‒1566).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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