chiromancy

• Quite early in his career he developed a taste for a Bohemian mode of life and is reported to have gained a livelihood by psalm-singing, astrological prescriptions, chiromancy, and even by the practice of the Black Art. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
• The observation was new to him, and he seemed to be interested in it, as he always was in anything like chiromancy or metoscopy. —  Memoirs
• 'I used to dabble in phrenology and chiromancy, and such things, when I was young,' he said. —  Cicely and Other Stories
• Physiognomy, chiromancy, and other fantastic arts of prediction afforded each its mystical assistance and guidance. —  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
• You say right, Lady: phisiognomy and chiromancy are but trifles; nay, your geomancie meere coniecturall, the execution of your schemes circumstantiall and fallible, but your quaint alamode weare of your fancie more then astrologicall La_. —  A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2

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