Chiromancer

Quick meaning: Chiromancer is a noun meaning One who practices chiromancy; a palm reader.

Meaning

One who practices chiromancy; a palm reader.

Example Sentences

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?

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.

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.

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, […]

Word Forms

• chiromancers

Synonyms for chiromancer

Depending on context, synonyms include cheiromantist, palmist, palmister.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include palmist, cheiromancer, chyromancer, chirologist, chirosophist, chiromantist.

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