Also 6–7 chiromancie, 7 -manty, -tie, chyromancy, -cie, 7–9 cheiro-. [a. (prob. through F. chiromancie) L. chīromantīa, -cīa, a. late Gr. χειρομαντεία, f. χειρο- hand + μαντεία divination: see -MANCY.]
Divination by the hand; the art of telling the characters and fortunes of persons by inspection of their hands; palmistry.
a. 1528. Skelton, Sp. Parrot, 140. Som pseudo-propheta with chiromancy.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., I. iii. (1616), 616. The Thumbe, in chiromantie, we giue Venvs.
1830. Scott, Demonol., x. 342. Physiognomy, Chiromancy, and other fantastic arts of prediction.
1883. Frith & Allen (title), Chiromancy or the Science of Palmistry.
