单词 | chiromancy |
释义 | chiromancyn. Divination by the hand; the art of telling the characters and fortunes of persons by inspection of their hands; palmistry. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] palmistryc1450 chiromancya1529 palm-reading1860 hand-reading1867 chirognomy1868 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iiii Som pseudo propheta with Ciromancy. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C3 The Thumbe, in Chiromantie, we giue Venus. View more context for this quotation 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft x. 342 Physiognomy, Chiromancy, and other fantastic arts of prediction. 1883 Frith & Allen (title) Chiromancy or the Science of Palmistry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1529 |
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