单词 | palmister |
释义 | palmistern. Now rare. = palmist n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > one who practises palmister?a1505 palmastrer1561 chiromancer1573 chiromantine1601 chiromantist1652 chirosopher1652 chiromantic1653 palmist1875 chiromant1876 chirognomist1883 chiromancist1889 a1505 R. Henryson Thre Deid Pollis 42 in Poems (1981) 183 Quhat phisnamour or perfyt palmester. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Chiromantes.., a Palmester. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 62v These three Muscles make that fleshy part of the thombe, which Palmesters do terme the hill of Mars. 1610 J. Heath Two Cent. Epigr. 2 One by profession a Palmester, That in his rare iudicials could not erre. a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 424 No soothsayer, no Palmester, no judicial Astrologer is able to tell any man the event of his life. a1699 J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) 67 In his youth a certain palmister hade assured him he should rise to great honors. 1893 C. Sextus Hypnotism vi. 95 A gypsy palmister proves clairvoyant and predicts for the Danish Royal family its future. 2003 www.angelfire.com 7 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) She could feel the weight of those dark eyes—the colour of the rich Hunter soil—resting on her face, reading the contours and lines of her features like a palmister at her craft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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