释义 |
chirologist|kaɪˈrɒlədʒɪst| Also cheir-. [f. chirology taken in sense ‘science of the hand’ + -ist.] One who makes the hand a subject of study.
1834–47Southey Doctor (1848) 528 ‘Nature’, says a Cheirologist, ‘was a careful workman’. 1872M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. ix. 197 Cheirologists know that it takes many generations to confer patrician form upon the fingers. |