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Definition of Palm reading
1. Noun. Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand.
Generic synonyms: Divination, Foretelling, Fortune Telling, Soothsaying
Derivative terms: Chiromance, Chiromancer, Chiromantic
Definition of Palm reading
1. Noun. palmistry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palm Reading
Literary usage of Palm reading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"... about palm-reading. 11. Ladles' HJ 28: 7. Ag. 41. Panama. Panama in 1910. il.
Bui. Pan Am. Union. 33: Panama, nature's treasury. С: Noble. 11. Harp. ..."
2. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1907)
"The lady seats the visitor; and in case this person does not desire a " Palm
Reading," she says, " Madam I am acquainted with a lady medium, who, ..."
3. The Laws of scientific hand reading: A Practical Treatise on the Art by William George Benham (1900)
"... because severe illnesses and death have been looked for on the Life line only,
that so little proficiency has been attained in palm-reading. ..."
4. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1900)
"Yet, as I have elsewhere said, it seems to me as if this palm-reading partakes
more than anything else of the nature of Psychometry, because I have noticed ..."
5. Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow (1900)
"... the reception of information through the palm, reading the raised print, —
while dreams of flying naturally present the same elaboration of sensory ..."
6. Peoples of the Philippines by Alfred Louis Kroeber (1919)
"Some of these have already been mentioned in the section on native law. Another type
of prediction is palm reading, known to the ..."
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