Pisces
[pahy-seez, pis-eez]
- Astronomy. the Fishes, a zodiacal constellation between Aries and Aquarius.
- Astrology.
- the twelfth sign of the zodiac: the mutable water sign.
- a person born under this sign, usually between February 19th and March 20th.
- the class of vertebrates comprising the fish and sometimes including, in certain classifications, the cyclostomes.
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Origin of Pisces
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Contemporary Examples
CAPRICORN Communication is likely to break down this week with Mars opposing a battle-worn Chiron in Pisces.
PISCES Venus and Mercury, trine the healer Chiron, in Pisces, are fast at work pulling your guard down.
PISCES With the Full Moon in Pisces, Monday, secret maneuverings become a bit revealed.
Cancer tackles the big issues, Capricorn goes back to school, and Pisces unplugs.
Neptune sliding out of Pisces takes your delusions of grandeur with it.
Historical Examples
Oannes of Assyria had the sign of Pisces, the Fish, and is thus figured.
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser MysteriesAnnie Besant
Just what "Aries" and "Pisces" had to do with healing or the weather is still a mystery.
A Son of the Middle BorderHamlin Garland
The exaltation of Venus was in Pisces; her depression, in Virgo.
The Arthrodira cannot be strictly included among the Pisces.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)David Starr Jordan
As the sun leaves Pisces just before Lady Day this does not explain it.
Bygone BeliefsH. Stanley Redgrove
Pisces
- astronomy a faint extensive zodiacal constellation lying between Aquarius and Aries on the ecliptic
- astrology
- Also called: the Fishesthe twelfth sign of the zodiac, symbol ♓, having a mutable water classification and ruled by the planets Jupiter and Neptune. The sun is in this sign between about Feb 19 and March 20
- a person born when the sun is in this sign
- a taxonomic group that comprises all fishesSee fish (def. 1)
- a taxonomic group that comprises the bony fishes onlySee teleost
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- astrology born under or characteristic of Pisces
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Also (for senses 2b, 4): Piscean (ˈpaɪsɪən)
Word Origin
C14: Latin: the fishes
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Word Origin and History for pisces
Pisces
n.
12th sign of the zodiac, late Old English, from Latin pisces, from plural of piscis "a fish," cognate with Gothic fisks, Old English fisc (see fish (n.)). Applied to persons born under this sign from 1924.
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Pisces
[pī′sēz]
- A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Aries and Pegasus. Pisces (the Fishes) is the twelfth sign of the zodiac.
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