A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1460, 1540-1618
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Palmestry, -ie, -é, Palmesterie, Palmastrie, -mistrie, n. [Late ME. pawmestry (Lydgate), late ME. and e.m.E. palmestrie, e.m.E. palm-, paulmistrie, -y; formed (f. Palm(e n.2) as Palmester n.] Cheiromancy, palmistry. —c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 413.
Then techit he him … the practik of the palmastrie 1540 Lynd. Sat. 905 (B).
In Italy I leirit the craft of palmestry [Ch. palmistrie] Schaw me the luffe schir of ȝour hand 1574 Acts III. 87/2.
Or ony vther that fenȝeis tham to haue knawlege in physnomie palmestre or vtheris abused sciencis quhairby thay perswade the people that thay can tell thair weardis deathis and fortunes c1610 Melville Mem. 20.
Palmesterie 1618 Trial Isobel Inch 5.
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