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Chiromancy

noun
1.
Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand.  Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry.






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"Chiromancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... astrologer, he maintains, believes in anything at all, he must worship not God, but the planets, from which all good and evil are derived. All other superstitions find a ready instrument in astrology, which serves as handmaid to geomancy, chiromancy, and magic of every kind. As to morality, he maintains that nothing can more foster evil than the opinion that heaven itself is the cause of it, in which case the faith in eternal happiness and punishment must also disappear. Pico even took the trouble to ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt



Words linked to "Chiromancy" :   divination, chiromantic, chirology, palmistry, soothsaying, palm reading, chiromance, foretelling, chiromancer, fortune telling



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