单词 | chirology |
释义 | chirologyn.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language hand language1625 arthrology1641 chirology1656 dactylology1656 finger-talk1656 finger language1669 hand alphabet1680 semiology1694 finger alphabet1751 finger talking1823 sign language1824 finger speech1826 indigitation1826 manual alphabet1876 dactylography1884 signing1891 American Sign Language1900 sign1930 British Sign Language1961 ASL1965 Ameslan1972 Yerkish1973 1644 J. Bulwer (title) Chirologia, or the natvrall Langvage of the Hand.] 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Chirology, a talking or speaking with the hand, or by signs made with the hand. 1680 G. Dalgarno Didascalocophus Introd. (T.) Cheirology is interpretation by the transient motions of the fingers. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xix. 157 Such a fine Gesticulator, and in the Practice of Chirology an Artist so compleat..that with his very Fingers he doth speak. 2. The study of the hand: see chirologist n. ΚΠ a1843 [see chirologically adv. at Derivatives]. Derivatives chiroˈlogical adj. ΚΠ 1849 Q. Rev. Mar. 365 The importance of the hand in riding and driving..may be conceded, without going the lengths of..some veterinary professors in cheirological inductions. 1892 (title) The palmist and chirological review, the journal of the Chirological Society. chiroˈlogically adv. ΚΠ a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VI. 342 Cheirologically speaking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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