Metopomancy

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /mɪˈtÉ’pÉ™mænsi/
• GA IPA: /mɪˈtÉ‘pÉ™mænsi/

Origin

From French métopomantie (from Ancient Greek μέτωπον ("forehead")), later reformed after + -mancy.

Full definition of metopomancy

Noun

1. (now historical) Divination by interpreting the facial lines and wrinkles, especially the forehead. from 17th c.
• 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (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 ….

Synonyms

• metoposcopy