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Webster 1913 Edition
Chiromancy
Chi′ro-mancy
,Noun.
[Gr.
χείρ
hand + -mancy
.] The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chiromancy
CHIROMANCY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chiromancy
chiromancy
English
Alternative forms
- Early modern English: cheiromancy, chiromancie, chyromancia, chyromancie, chyromancy
Noun
chiromancy (usually uncountable, plural chiromancies)
- Divination performed by examining the lines in the palms.
- 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster
- If they fore-tell things that shall happen by signes that they see in lines of a mans hand; then it is called Chyromancie...
- 1995 C. Walker Encyc. Secret Knowledge
- Modern palmistry differs from the ancient methods in concentrating on what is called chirognomy at the expense of chiromancy.
- 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster
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Derived terms
Translations
divination performed by examining the palms
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References
- chiromancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913