Alternative forms

• Early modern English: cheiromancy, chiromancie, chyromancia, chyromancie, chyromancy

Quotations

• 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster

  If they fore-tell things that shall happen by signes that they see in lines of a mans hand; then it is called Chyromancie...

• 1995 C. Walker Encyc. Secret Knowledge

  Modern palmistry differs from the ancient methods in concentrating on what is called chirognomy at the expense of chiromancy.