Also cheir-. [f. CHIROLOGY taken in sense ‘science of the hand’ + -IST.] One who makes the hand a subject of study.
1834–47. Southey, Doctor (1848), 528/2. ‘Nature,’ says a Cheirologist, ‘was a careful workman in the creation of the human body.’
1872. M. Collins, Two Plunges for Pearl, I. ix. 197. Cheirologists know that it takes many generations to confer patrician form upon the fingers.
