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palmistry::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chirology, chiromancy, palm reading |
| Type of | divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
Examples of palmistry
palmistry
According to this theory, palmistry developed in India and then extended across the world.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Blue Book is itself a very fine object and looks like a lovely old volume on palmistry.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hippocrates sought to use palmistry to aid his clinical procedures.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Not sure that's something I'd be admitting to people, myself, although at least he didn't use palmistry.
From the telegraph.co.uk
She has a new gig teaching at the Grosse Pointe Music Academy, and also works at palmistry and magic.
From the freep.com
The practice of palmistry has been used in the cultures of India, Tibet, China, Persia, and some countries in Europe.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Renowned palmist Cheiro learnt palmistry in India where he is believed to have read ancient scriptures on palmistry.
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Writers have mixed views on celestial palmistry.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Asano reconfirmed his diagnosis with palmistry.
From the time.com
- Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
- Palmistry, or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy; from Greek kheir (u03C7u03B5u1FD6u03C1, u03CCu03C2; u201Chandu201D) and manteia (u03BCu03B1u03BDu03C4u03B5u03AFu03B1, u03B1u03C2; u201Cdivinationu201D)), is the claim of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading or chirology. The practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations...
- For a young woman to dream of palmistry, foretells she will be the object of suspicion. If she has her palms read, she will have many friends of the opposite sex, but her own sex will condemn her. If she reads others' hands, she will gain distinction by her intelligent bearing. ...
- The art of assessing a person's character and forecasting life events by examining features of the hand. See also divination.
- Cheiro the Palmist. Comfort's Palmistry Guide. Baltimore, Md.: I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1894.
- Palmistry is another branch of occult science, which deals with the comprehensive study of the palm-prints and gets the idea of future happenings in life. Palmistry is another proof which champions that everybody has a different life, as because we all have different palm prints.
- Is the broad field of divination and interpretation of the lines and structure of the hand.
- Hand Reading. The divination practice of psychically reading an individual's past, present and future, as well as health and character, by studying the lines, shape and texture of the individual's hands, fingers and wrists.
- The act of reading palms
