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单词 chiromancy
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chiromancyn.

/ˈkʌɪərəʊmansi/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s chiromancie, 1600s chiromanty, chiromantie, chyromancy, chyromancie, 1600s–1800s cheiro-.
Etymology: < (probably through French chiromancie ) Latin chīromantīa, -cīa, < late Greek χειρομαντεία , < χειρο- hand + μαντεία divination: see -mancy comb. form.
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).
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