"palmistry" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: palmistries [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|palmestrie}} Middle English palmestrie, {{suffix|en|palm|ist|ry}} palm + -ist + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} palmistry (usually uncountable, plural palmistries)
  1. Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Palmistry Synonyms (fortune telling from the hand): chiromancy, palm reading, chirography, chirognomy Translations (telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand): قِراءَةُ الْكَفّ (qirāʔatu l-kaff) [feminine] (Arabic), хиромантия (hiromantija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), quiromància [feminine] (Catalan), 手相术 (Chinese Mandarin), 手相術 (Chinese Mandarin), 手相 (shǒuxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), håndlæsning [common-gender] (Danish), kiromanti [common-gender] (Danish), handlijnkunde [feminine] (Dutch), chiromantie [feminine] (Dutch), kädestäennustaminen (Finnish), chiromancie [feminine] (French), ქირომანტია (kiromanṭia) (Georgian), Chiromantie [feminine] (German), Handlesekunst [feminine] (German), Handlesen [neuter] (German), tenyérjóslás (Hungarian), chiromantia (Interlingua), dearnadóireacht [feminine] (Irish), chirognomia [feminine] (Italian), chirologia [feminine] (Italian), chiromanzia [feminine] (Italian), chiroscopia [feminine] (Italian), 手相 (tesō) (alt: てそう) (Japanese), chiromantia (Latin), chyromantia [New-Latin] (Latin), chiromantie (Middle English), chiromanty (Middle English), chyromancie (Middle English), ciromanci (Middle English), ciromancie (Middle English), cyromancy (Middle English), cyromancye (Middle English), palmestrie (Middle English), pawmestry (Middle English), håndlesning (Norwegian), quiromancia [feminine] (Portuguese), chiromanție [feminine] (Romanian), гада́ние (gadánije) [neuter] (Russian), хирома́нтия (xiromántija) [feminine] (Russian), quiromancia [feminine] (Spanish), kiromanti [common-gender] (Swedish), spådom [common-gender] (Swedish), handläsning [common-gender] (Swedish), himalad (Tagalog), హస్తసాముద్రికము (hastasāmudrikamu) (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-palmistry-en-noun-es0ibiCF Disambiguation of Palmistry: 59 31 10 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 46 11 Disambiguation of 'fortune telling from the hand': 65 13 22 Disambiguation of 'telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand': 93 2 5
  2. (countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. Tags: countable, usually
    Sense id: en-palmistry-en-noun-tFwGNK4m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ist, English terms suffixed with -ry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 69 3 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 33 58 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 46 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 32 53 15 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 32 58 11
  3. (obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand. Tags: obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-palmistry-en-noun--HP0fMfA Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 46 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: palmist, palmister

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          "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.",
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          "ref": "1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, Eglog 5, page 32",
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          "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,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
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          "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",
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        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
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        {
          "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."
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      "sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
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      "sense": "fortune telling from the hand",
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    },
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      "roman": "qirāʔatu l-kaff",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "قِراءَةُ الْكَفّ"
    },
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      "roman": "hiromantija",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "quiromància"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "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"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "word": "手相术"
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      "roman": "shǒuxiàng",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "word": "手相"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "håndlæsning"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kiromanti"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "handlijnkunde"
    },
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      "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": [
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      ],
      "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"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dearnadóireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chirognomia"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chirologia"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chiromanzia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "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"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "word": "chiromantia"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chyromantia"
    },
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      "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"
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}

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