Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
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- noun Alternative form of
chirosophy .
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Examples
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But it has tended to degrade the face aesthetically, in such wise as the study of cheirosophy has tended to degrade the hand.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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England, with a fashionable prestige, has been interesting the fashionables of New York and Boston in palmistry, or, as he calls it, cheirosophy, with considerable profit to himself.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 1856
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