Noun: chiromancy
| Singular | chiromancy |
| Plural | chiromancies |
Sample Sentences
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If they fore-tell things that shall happen by signes that they see in lines of a mans hand; then it is called Chyromancie... [1620, J. Melton Astrologaster, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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Modern palmistry differs from the ancient methods in concentrating on what is called chirognomy at the expense of chiromancy. [1995, C. Walker Encyc, Secret Knowledge:]
Nouns inflected like chiromancy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ciromancie, from Middle French chiromantie, chiromancie, from Latin chīromantīa, from Ancient Greek χειρομαντεία (kheiromanteía), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination, fortune-telling”). Equivalent to chiro- + -mancy. See: Middle English Nouns '
ciromancie', Middle English Nouns '
ciromancie', Latin Nouns '
chīromantīa'.