How To Use Chiromancy In A Sentence
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Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses.
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Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy.
Women in the Life of Balzac
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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.
The Complete Father Brown
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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
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses.
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For example, chiromancy, chirognomy, chirosophy, and palmistry are all words to describe the same mantic system.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure.
Quentin Durward
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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
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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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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
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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
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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
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Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the hands, particularly the palms.
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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
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These comparisons, like fortune-telling and chiromancy, or the interpretation of moral dispositions from the form of the hand, are to be classed among the aberrations of the human understanding.
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I remain open to the possibility that the ancient Vedas, Hyperboreans, or Druids might have enjoyed some special power of awareness through their skill at chiromancy, crystal gazing, or navel contemplation.
