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to chiromance

to chiromance

9.9
To tell someone's future by reading the lines on their palm
  • verb
translation icon : quiromancia
  • During the festival, she set up a booth to chiromance guests, interpreting their palms for insights.

Examples

  • I chiromanced his palm last night.

  • She loves to chiromance her friends at parties.

  • He claimed he could chiromance and reveal secrets hidden in your hands.

  • Many novels describe mysterious characters who chiromance to predict destinies.

  • The old woman offered to chiromance for the curious travelers at the fair.

  • At the carnival, the fortune teller would chiromance anyone who wanted to know their future.

  • He decided to chiromance his friends after reading a book on palmistry.

Synonyms

to tell fortunes
vsto chiromance
4 7.6

Say what will happen to someone by reading palms, cards, or tea leaves

focuses only on reading palm lines to predict the future

Surface Forms

chiromance infinitive
chiromanced past
chiromanced past participle
chiromancing present participle
chiromances third person singular

Morphology

chiromance = chiromancy (opaque) = chiro + mance

The verb is formed from specialized combining forms and is effectively a back-formation from 'chiromancy', which is not a productive, familiar base for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

The word chiromance comes from Greek parts cheir meaning 'hand' and manteia meaning 'to tell the future', so it originally meant 'hand prophecy'. A helpful way to remember it is that chiro- is the 'hand' part you see in chiropractor, and to chiromance is to read the lines on someone's palm to tell their future.