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Divination performed by examining the lines in the palms.
Examples of chiromancy in a Sentence
Free palm readings can offer beginners an excellent opportunity to explore the world of palmistry while developing a relationship with their new chiromancy counselor.
If you are truly serious about mastering the craft of chiromancy, you would do best to find a professional who is willing to train you.
They practised chiromancy (see Palmistry), and relied on afterwards drawing a horoscope to suit.
This typically covers the "how" behind the methodology of chiromancy (palmistry).
The influence of a particular planet has also lef t traces in various languages; but the French and English jovial and the English saturnine correspond rather to the gods who served as types in chiromancy than to the planets which bear the same names.
For long ages astronomy and astrology (which might be called astromancy, on the same principle as "chiromancy") were identified; and a distinction is made between "natural astrology," which predicts the motions of the heavenly bodies, eclipses, &c., and "judicial astrology," which studies the influence of the stars on human destiny.
Even up to the present day men of intellectual eminence like Dr Richard Garnett have convinced themselves that astromancy has a foundation of truth, just as there are still believers in chiromancy or other forms of divination.