The art or practice of supposedly reading a person's character or future by examining the lines and other features of the hand, especially the…
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] (49) palmistryc1450 The art or practice of supposedly reading a person's character or future by examining the lines and other features of the hand, especially the… chiromancya1529 Divination by the hand; the art of telling the characters and fortunes of persons by inspection of their hands; palmistry. palm-reading1860 (a) n. the action of telling a person's fortune by looking at the lines on the palm; an instance of this; (b) adj. of or relating to palm-reading… hand-reading1867 = palm-reading n. adj.(a) at palm, n.2 compounds 2. chirognomy1868 The alleged art or science of estimating character by inspection of the hand. Subcategories:— one who practises (11) — mark on the hand (23) — fleshy prominence (8) — specific area of the hand (2) |
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