Meanings
- historicaluncountableDivination by interpreting the facial lines and wrinkles, especially the forehead.First known use 17th c.
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 […].
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 231Synonyms: metoposcopy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDivination by interpreting the facial lines and wrinkles, especially the forehead.
Origin
- Ancient Greekμέτωπον“forehead”
- Frenchmétopomantie
- Englishmetopomancy
From French métopomantie (from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”)), later reformed after + -mancy.
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