Значения термина chiromancy на английском

They pretend to a knowledge of chiromancy, but know nothing about it.

This decree of chiromancy frightened considerably both Bertha and the maid.

Works, too, were there, by writers less renowned, on astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, etc.

Balzac was interested in the occult sciences-inchiromancy and cartomancy.

He addicted himself to astrology, chemistry, and the still more frivolous sciences of chiromancy and physiognomy.

The clock said, Five minutes: a secret chiromancy in addition indicating on its face the word Fool.

Their women were fortune-tellers, especially by chiromancy.

Craniology, or phrenology, proceeds exactly in the same train, as chiromancy, or any of those pretended sciences which are built merely on assumption or conjecture.

It is an error to suppose that chiromancy is limited to the hand, for there are significant lines (indicating character), all over the body.

Chiromancy, from the most remote periods, has been practised in all countries.

This is sometimes called Wharton's Chiromancy.

Chiromancy, by the hands.

Chiromancy maybe delusion or not-itmatters but little; here we are concerned with the great moral truth that underlies this distinction.

"Under necromancy," says Mr. Forbes, "are comprehended chiromancy, predictions, and responses by the sieve and the shear, and all other hellish arts of divination.

They pretend to a knowledge of chiromancy, but know nothing about it.

This decree of chiromancy frightened considerably both Bertha and the maid.