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chiromancy

NOUN
  1. telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand

How To Use chiromancy In A Sentence

  • Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses.
  • Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy. Women in the Life of Balzac
  • 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. The Complete Father Brown
  • 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 Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
  • Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses.
  • For example, chiromancy, chirognomy, chirosophy, and palmistry are all words to describe the same mantic system. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
  • I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure. Quentin Durward
  • 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
  • Smith's collage imagery in this film more directly alludes to his particular interests, drawing as they do on ‘Cabalistic symbolism, Indian chiromancy […] dancing, Buddhist mandalas, and Renaissance alchemy’.
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