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English
Etymology
From French métopomantie (from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”)), later reformed after + -mancy.
Pronunciation
Noun
metopomancy (uncountable)
- (now historical) Divination by interpreting the facial lines and wrinkles, especially the forehead.
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 231:These elaborate systems of divination, with their subdivisions, such as divination by moles on the face, or lines on the forehead (metopomancy), had been set out in many medieval treatises […].
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References
- "Metopomantie" in Cotgrave Dictionarie of French & English Tongues (1632): "f. Diuination by the face"
- "Metopomancy" in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary (1974): "fortunetelling by examining the face."