Definitions

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  • Pertaining to craniology.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to craniology.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to craniology.

Etymologies

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craniology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • And this american professor responded: I somebody have seen me with craniological compass in hands, I would be fired.

    Academia, Harvard Law School, and freedom of speech 2010

  • The truth is, that had the doctor at that period been permitted to examine the heads of the sovereigns of Europe they would have afforded very curious craniological studies.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • I tried afterwards to measure it, and found that for craniological purposes it was utterly valueless.

    The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

  • The deduction of the French scientists De Quatrefages and Hamy have been based almost entirely on craniological and osteological observations, and these authors argue a much wider distribution of the Negritos than other writers hold.

    Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

  • His having taken so much pains in collecting facts and drawings on this point, necessarily leads to the inference that he attaches much value to the craniological distinctions.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • He would get some excellent shooting, especially in the Salwen Valley, not exactly a health resort, however; and had he inclinations towards botanical, ethnological, craniological, or philological studies, he would be at a loss to find anywhere in the world a more interesting area.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • _Mythological, anthropological, craniological and antediluvian disquisitions_.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • To throw more than a cursory glance at them Would lead me into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, anthropological, craniological, and antediluvian nature for which one would not find universal approval among his readers.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • Blumenbach added to these craniological criteria others of a general somatological character, deduced from the observation of the members of the body, chiefly of the head and its parts.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Statements have been widely circulated to the effect that not only relatively to the body, but even absolutely, the Japanese possess larger brains than the European, but craniological statistics do not verify the assertion.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

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