Crossword-Solution: PALMISTRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palmistry | n. | The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. |
| Palmistry | n. | A dexterous use or trick of the hand. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PALMISTRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Chiromancer's skill | 1 answer |
| DIVINATION by lines in palm of hand | 1 answer |
| Friend not in the church for pseudoscience | 1 answer |
| PALM of hand, divination of lines in | 1 answer |
| Prediction of future from studying the hand | 1 answer |
| fortune-telling from lines on the palm of the hand | 1 answer |
| telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | 1 answer |
| DIVINATION by formation of hand | 2 answers |
| CHIROMANCY | 2 answers |
| Fortunetelling medium | 2 answers |
| Handyman's work | 3 answers |
| Palm reading? | 5 answers |
| Divination | 43 answers |
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Sentences with PALMISTRY (5)
The fact is I know quite a lot about palmistry and second sight.” “Oh, do tell my ’and, Miss Bennett,” cried the girls in her department, eager to please her.
Who knows but ye'd be a great lawyer if ye kept on?" Young people usually like to discuss themselves under any conditions--hence the rewards of palmistry,--but Joe's comment on this harangue was not so responsive as might have been expected.
But, he asked, had I tried to test them by the lines on my own hands or on the hands of my friends? I confessed that my actual practice in palmistry had been of a merely passive kind--the prompt extension of my palm to any one who would be so good as to "read" it and truckle for a few minutes to my egoism.
Since that moment, when I paid for my freedom, I defy chemistry, astrology, palmistry, and every other occult art, were it as secret as hell itself, to unloose the stricture of my purse-strings.
Travers had dropped her hand into his strong open palm on which an expert in palmistry could have distinguished other lines than the line of luck.
Quotes with PALMISTRY (3)
Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business — all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person’s superstitious beliefs become the tool of…
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1988–2013).