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Definition of Palmisters
1. palmister [n] - See also: palmister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmisters
Literary usage of Palmisters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... which is which by their fulsome breath: When palmisters or gypsies shall but
look Upon her palm, they'll think they have mistook, And say they see some ..."
2. Social Institutions of the United States by James Bryce Bryce (1891)
"... few offenders were hanged. t Ohio, in 1883, imposed a license tax of $300 a
year on " astrologers, fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, palmisters, and seers. ..."
3. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1832)
"... interpreters of signs and of lightning, astrologers, palmisters, and necromancers.
These all ministered to the ungovernable passions of the populace, ..."
4. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"... who condemned: and some fanatic spirits in our church have gone so far as to
take upon them (as some vain palmisters, by the sight of the hand, ..."
5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1908)
"... will supply 1 Ohio in 1883 imposed a licence tar of 8300 a year on " astrologers,
fortunetellers, clairvoyants, palmisters, aud seers. ..."
6. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1900)
"... because I have noticed that the palmisters of India and those of the West are
about equally successful although reading the hand-lines by two quite ..."
7. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1907)
"... will supply 1 Ohio in 1883 imposed a licence tax of 8300 a year ou " astrologers,
fortunetellers, clairvoyants, palmisters, and seers. ..."
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