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. ‘Nature,’ says a Cheirologist, ‘was a careful workman.’
1872. M. Collins, Two Plunges for Pearl, I. ix. 197. Cheirologists know that it takes many generations to confer patrician form upon the fingers.
