He addicted himself to astrology, chemistry, and the still more frivolous sciences of chiromancy and physiognomy.
They may try their chiromancy on me, when they please, and do me all the harm they can for half a crown, which is, I believe, the stipulated sum.
We read in Josephus that Caesar was so well versed in chiromancy that when one day a soi-disant son of Herod had audience of him, he at once detected the impostor because his hand was destitute of all marks of royalty.
Though the palmy days of Indian chiromancy have passed away, the art is still to some extent studied and believed in.
Even up to the present day men of intellectual eminence like Dr Richard Garnett have convinced themselves that astromancy has a foundation of truth, just as there are still believers in chiromancy or other forms of divination.
Many of the modern writers on Chiromancy seem disposed to deny its affinity to astrology, with which it is, however, inseparably connected.
Chiromancy and Physiognomy are both based on astrology and are, therefore, quite in place as the second and third parts of a work treating of the influence of the stars.
They who have these marks on their hands will have in their nativity--Venus in the 6th or 8th house (which houses rule the lower parts of the body), thus showing the entire concordance of Chiromancy with Astrology.
In the relative lengths of the three divisions of the fingers Chiromancy also recognises the indications of three separate influences--that of the soul, that of the mind, and that of the body.
Illustration: Fac-simile of a part of a Page of the Chiromancy of Doctor Hartlieb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chiromancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
