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"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "palmist"
},
{
"word": "palmister"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1546, Thomas Langley, An Abridgement of the Notable Woorke of Polidore Vergile, London, Book 1, Chapter 18, p. 34b:",
"text": "Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, Eglog 5, page 32:",
"text": "And those fayre hands within whose louely palmes,\nFortune diuineth happie Augurie,\nThose straightest fingers dealing heauenly almes,\nPointed with pur’st of Natures Alcumie,\nWhere loue sits looking in loues palmistrie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1626, Barten Holyday, “A Sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford on Ascension-day”, in Three Sermons vpon the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Sauior, London: Nathaniell Butter, page 94:",
"text": "[…] but his [God’s] right hand of truth and bountie, does by a Catholike and vnfeigned Palmistrie, shew the blessings prouided for other men!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, published 1684, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 390:",
"text": "He must (at least) hold up his hand,\nBy twelve Free-holders to be scan’d,\nWho by their skill in Palmistry,\nWill quickly read his Destiny;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in Jane Eyre:",
"text": "I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1941, H. G. Wells, You Can’t Be Too Careful, London: Secker & Warburg, Book 1, Chapter 1:",
"text": "If you had cared to do so, you could have told the little chap’s fortune from those hands. They were not flat and featureless as you might have expected them to be; already they had all the lines and creases known to palmistry.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand."
],
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[
"Telling",
"telling"
],
[
"fortune",
"fortune"
],
[
"line",
"line"
],
[
"palm",
"palm"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, Peter Scupham, The Hinterland, Oxford University Press, page 27:",
"text": "No living palmistries can spell\nThe bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991 May, Eriko Amino, “A Medieval Palmistry”, in Columbia Library Columns, volume 40, number 1, page 31:",
"text": "Both the composition and the transmission of this palmistry must be taken in the context of the medieval Christian world, in which the life on earth was still secondary to the life in the hereafter; even so, texts such as these palmistries do make the unreadable mysteries of one’s relationship to the world seem more familiar and more accessible.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1996, Richard Grossinger, New Moon, Berkeley, CA: Frog, Part 7, Chapter 2, p. 534,\nTo fulfill my graduate language requirement I began reading Michel Foucault’s work on signatures, Les Mots et Les Choses, which joined the meanings of the bestiaries, herbals, palmistries, and physiognomies of olden Europe to the totemic orders of plants and animals among the Arapaho, Xhosa, and Aranda."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry."
],
"links": [
[
"book",
"book"
],
[
"system",
"system"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182,\nIn the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dexterous use or trick of the hand."
],
"links": [
[
"dexterous",
"dexterous"
],
[
"trick",
"trick"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
"word": "chiromancy"
},
{
"sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
"word": "palm reading"
},
{
"sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
"word": "chirography"
},
{
"sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
"word": "chirognomy"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qirāʔatu l-kaff",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "قِراءَةُ الْكَفّ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hiromantija",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "хиромантия"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quiromància"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "手相术"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "手相術"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "手相术"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǒuxiàng",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "手相"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "håndlæsning"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kiromanti"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "handlijnkunde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiromantie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "kädestäennustaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiromancie"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "kiromanṭia",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "ქირომანტია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Chiromantie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Handlesekunst"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Handlesen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "tenyérjóslás"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "chiromantia"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dearnadóireacht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chirognomia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chirologia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiromanzia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiroscopia"
},
{
"alt": "てそう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tesō",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "手相"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "chiromantia"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"New-Latin"
],
"word": "chyromantia"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "chiromantie"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "chiromanty"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "chyromancie"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "ciromanci"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "ciromancie"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "cyromancy"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "cyromancye"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "palmestrie"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "pawmestry"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "håndlesning"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quiromancia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chiromanție"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gadánije",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гада́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xiromántija",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "хирома́нтия"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quiromancia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kiromanti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spådom"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "handläsning"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "himalad"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "hastasāmudrikamu",
"sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
"word": "హస్తసాముద్రికము"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"palmistry"
],
"word": "palmistry"
}
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