Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Palmistry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by the hand; the art or practice of attempting to foretell the future of a person by inspecting the lines and lineaments of his hand; palmistry practised with reference to the future; also, palmistry in general.
- noun Synonyms Chiromancy, Chirognomy. See
chirognomy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
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- noun Divination performed by examining the lines in the palms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
Etymologies
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Examples
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If, however, the observation regards the dispositions, that occur to the eye, of figures in certain bodies, there will be another species of divination: for the divination that is taken from observing the lines of the hand is called "chiromancy," i.e. divination of the hand
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his
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Sir T. Browne treats of chiromancy, or the art of telling fortunes by means of lines in the hands, in his “Vulgar Errors,” lib.v. cap.
Religio Medici 2007
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Aristotle, I confess, in his acute and singular book of physiognomy, hath made no mention of chiromancy: 80 yet I believe the
Religio Medici 2007
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Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze.
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods.
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On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods.
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EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.
The Alhambra 2002
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