palmomancy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Divination of involuntary movements of the body such as tics. uncountable
    — The other texts are new or unidentified: an epic fragment relating to Achilles and the ransoming of Hector, some very imperfect iambic trimeters, apparently from a comedy, scholia on an unknown poetical text, two fragments of romances, an astrological fragment, and some fragments of a book of palmomancy, a genre very popular in Egypt, to judge by the specimens now known. To these may be added no. 718, containing medical recipes.

词源

From Ancient Greek παλμός (palmós, “quivering motion”) + -mancy; compare palmoscopy. By surface analysis, palmo- + -mancy.
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