Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As regards or by means of physiognomy, or according to its rules or principles; as to the face.
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- adverb In terms of
physiognomy .
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Examples
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He creates, unusually for a play, an exact topography: this big house is in the middle of a physiognomically inclined map, being near Crackskull Common and Squash Lane.
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012
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Palin to all the physiognomically challenged scribes and screechers from O'Reilly to Levin to Malkin to Goebbels (oh, he's still got an office somewhere), it is a bumper crop of cranial crap, calcifying around intellectualism like so much scum around a bath tap.
Steven Weber: Project for the New American Century 2: Rise of the Dopes 2009
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She still is, even though, physiognomically, she has more in common with Zoey Deschanel---blonde, big eyes, funny nose---than with Scarlett Johansson.
Lance Mannion: 2005
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She still is, even though, physiognomically, she has more in common with Zoey Deschanel---blonde, big eyes, funny nose---than with Scarlett Johansson.
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For as in landscape gardening, a spire, cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose.
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If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
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His readiness to interpret unfamiliar details physiognomically suggests that he knew the “institu - tionalized chance image” of the foliage mask, which had been revived at least as early as the twelfth century and was well-established in the repertory of Gothic art.
CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968
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And she says she thinks all the criminals there have the most wonderful faces physiognomically; benevolent foreheads, kindly eyes, and that sort of thing; and then she said, well, perhaps any one _would_ look good with such lovely complexions as they have!
The Twelfth Hour Ada Leverson 1897
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Dignity marked in full measure even at the time the presence of his sister Madame Dubreuil, a handsome authoritative person who instructed us equally, in fact preponderantly, and who, though comparatively not sympathetic, so engaged, physiognomically, my wondering interest, that I hear to this hour her shrill Franco-American accent: "Don't look at _me_, little boy -- look at my feet."
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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But the doctor was much the more respectable-looking man of the two; his baldness was more intellectual and benevolent; there was a delicacy and propriety in the pulpiness of his fat white chin, a bland bagginess in his unwhiskered cheeks, a reverent roughness about his eyebrows and a fullness in his lower eyelids, which raised him far higher, physiognomically speaking, in the social scale, than my old prison acquaintance.
A Rogue's Life Wilkie Collins 1856
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