mount

From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“I project, I protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons.

the mount of Jupiter

(palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.


percussion

en-noun

percussion (countable and uncountable, plural percussions)

From Middle English percussioun, from Middle French, Old French percussion, from Latin percussiō (“striking”), from percutiō (“I strike”).


chiromancer

/ˈkaɪɹəˌmænsɚ/

The ſcumme of the people partake of the Chyromancer; they will ſee the hand, to judge the heart: but how many are there who preſent themſelves before God with hands of gold, and hearts of clay?

1638, Virgilio Malvezzi, “Tarquin Makes Peace with the Equi, Renewes His League with the Tuscans, and Betaking Himselfe to Citie Affairs, will Finish the Temple of Jupiter Tarpeius”, in Henry Carey, Baron Carey of Leppington, transl., Romvlvs and Tarqvin: First Written in Italian by the Marques Virgilio Malvezzi; and now Taught English by H: Ld. Cary of Lepingtō, 2nd edition, London: Printed by I. H. for Iohn Benton, and are to be sould at his shopp under St Dunstons Church Fleet street, →OCLC, page 225:

Hippocrates Prince of Phyſick, ſayes, that the Phyſician cannot be accompliſhed in his Art, if he have not the knowledge of Aſtrologie; ſo I may ſay that the Chiromancer is not perfect nor accompliſhed if he have not Phyſiognomie, which is Scienta quâ natura hominum ex aſpectu corporis judicatur, […]

1653, Richard Sanders, “What Physiognomie is, and what of It is Requisite for the Chiromancer to Know”, in Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Fully and Accurately Handled; with Their Natural-predictive Significations. The Subject of Dreams; Divinative, Steganographical, and Lullian Sciences. Whereunto is Added the Art of Memorie, London: Printed by R. White, for Nathaniel Brooke, at the sign of the angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange, →OCLC, page 143:

There are many other inconstant folds, or markings of the skin, in this region [of the hand], which, to the surgeon, are of little import, but which present a book of mystic lore to the gipsy and the cheiromancer, wherein (when opened by the necessary charms) they discern the future destinies of all that seek to be enlightened by them.

1836–1839, F. T. M‘Dougall, “Hand, Regions of the”, in Robert B[entley] Todd, editor, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, volumes II (DIA–INS), London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, →OCLC, page 524:

Chiromancers divide the hand into several regions, each presided by a planet. The thumb belongs to Venus, the index to Jupiter, the middle finger to Saturn, the annulary to the Sun, the auricular to Mercury, the centre of the hand to Mars, the remainder to the Moon. The direction of the line of life is still undecided by chiromancers; some placing it between the thumb and index, traversing the centre of the palm; […]

1845, “Fortune-tellers and Chiromancy”, in Albany Poyntz, editor, A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, →OCLC, pages 126–127:

It was considered blasphemous to forestall Providence, as most chiromancers and metoposcopists did, by predicting future events in everyday life from sundry bodily signs; and this accounts for the widespread belief throughout those centuries that physiognomy was a kind of black magic.

1982, Graeme Tytler, “Lavater and the Physiognomische Fragmente”, in Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 43:

Now this chiromancer, when he understood the king's wish, took hold of his hand and examined with the greatest care all the lines he could trace there. After considering them diligently, one and all, he stood silent and his face grew pale.

2012, Giovan[ni] Francesco Straparola, “King Galafro's Vain Precautions”, in W. G. Waters, transl., edited by Donald Beecher, The Pleasant Nights (The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library), volume 2, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 264:

One who practices chiromancy; a palm reader.


chiromancy

chiromancy (usually uncountable, plural chiromancies)

From Middle French chiromancie, from Latin chīromantīa, from Ancient Greek χειρομαντεία (kheiromanteía), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination, fortune-telling”). Equivalent to chiro- + -mancy.

der

χειρομαντεία

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):

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:

Synonym of palmistry: fortune-telling performed by reading another's hand.


line of life

(palmistry) A line on the palm of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.


palmistry

en-noun

palmistry (usually uncountable, plural palmistries)

From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry.

Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.

1546, Thomas Langley, An Abridgement of the Notable Woorke of Polidore Vergile, London, Book 1, Chapter 18, p. 34b:

And those fayre hands within whose louely palmes,
Fortune diuineth happie Augurie,
Those straightest fingers dealing heauenly almes,
Pointed with pur’st of Natures Alcumie,
Where loue sits looking in loues palmistrie.

1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, Eglog 5, page 32:

[…] but his [God’s] right hand of truth and bountie, does by a Catholike and vnfeigned Palmistrie, shew the blessings prouided for other men!

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:

He must (at least) hold up his hand,
By twelve Free-holders to be scan’d,
Who by their skill in Palmistry,
Will quickly read his Destiny;

1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, published 1684, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 390:

I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.

1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in Jane Eyre:

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.

1941, H. G. Wells, You Can’t Be Too Careful, London: Secker & Warburg, Book 1, Chapter 1:

Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand.

قِراءَةُ الْكَفّ

telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand


lifeline

→ Japanese: ライフライン (raifurain)

(palmistry) A particular crease in the palm.


palmist

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Back-formation from palmistry, equivalent to palm + -ist.

While one can find lots of individual astrologers and graphologists, as well as an occasional palmist, psycho metrist or those astute in the reading of tarot cards or I Ching—Psychic Dimensions, Inc., has got it all together.

1970 November 28, Lisa Hammel, “Need an Occultist? Name Your Choice”, in The New York Times:

Most palmists find that reading the marriage lines is a lot like predicting the weather: sometimes they are right on, and sometimes they're not even in the ballpark.

2008, Jon Saint-Germain, Lover's Guide to Palmistry: Finding Love in the Palm of Your Hand, →ISBN:


chirography

chirography (usually uncountable, plural chirographies)

From chirograph + -y under influence from geography &c., from French chirographe, from Latin chirographus and chirographum, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos) and χειρόγραφον (kheirógraphon), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + γραφος (graphos, “writing, written thing”). Equivalent to chiro- (“hand”) + -graphy (“writing”) and handwriting.

der

Synonym of palmistry, fortune-telling based on one's hand.


mons

Borrowed from Latin mōns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.

(obsolete, palmistry) One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.


head line

(palmistry) A line on the palm of the hand from between the thumb and index finger moving across the palm. Supposed to indicate, by its form or position, one's mentality.

líne an chinn

a line on the palm supposed to indicate one's mentality


heart line

(palmistry) A line on the palm of the hand from below the index finger to below the pinky, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, one's love life.

líne an chroí

a line on the palm, supposed to indicate one's love life


palm reading

en-noun

palm reading (countable and uncountable, plural palm readings)


rascette

From Middle French rachette, rascette, from Late Latin racheta, rasceta (“wrist, ankle”), diminutive of rasca, from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”).

uder

(palmistry) The lines or wrinkles running across the wrist at the base of the palm.

腕紋

the lines running across the wrist at the base of the palm


cheiromantist

"Duchess, this is Mr. Podgers, my pet cheiromantist. Mr. Podgers, this is the Duchess of Paisley, and if you say she has a larger mountain of the moon than I have, I will never believe in you again."

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 1, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime:


heartline

(palmistry) A line on the palm supposed to reflect a person's emotional state.


discriminal

Latin discriminalis (“serving to divide”).

(palmistry) Applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.


chirognomy

From chiro- (“hand”) + -gnomy, from physiognomy.

The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.


marriage line

The marriage line (Diagram 24, No. 12), runs from the percussion side of the hand, and takes its course across the mount of Mercury, sometimes drooping towards the line of heart, or taking a curve towards the fingers, these having their seperate^([sic]) significations or meanings.

1993, A. Raphael, Cheirosophy (the Hand): A Scientific Treatise on Palmistry, →ISBN:

When the marriage line sends an offshoot into the mount of Apollo, the subject will marry a rich person, or one well versed in art.

1996, Francis Thomas, Secrets in the Hand: Palmistry Simplified, →ISBN, page 85:

If there is a break in the line of life at the same position as what could be a backup marriage line, the health lines take precedence.

2001, Rita Robinson, Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading, →ISBN:

(palmistry) Any of the short horizontal lines under the little finger and going to the edge of the palm.


mount of Venus

(palmistry) The elevation at the base of the thumb.


bracelets of fortune

(palmistry) Lines going around the wrist, associated with Neptune.


plain of Mars

(palmistry) The centre of the palm; the hollow of the hand.