Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by means of the characteristics of the face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Fortune telling by physiognomy.
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- noun
divination by interpreting the facial lines andwrinkles , especially theforehead . It was developed by 16th centuryastrologer andphysician Jerome Cardan.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk a little, and confer with him about your business.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk a little, and confer with him about your business.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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