Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With regard to the cranium, or to the zoölogical characters of the cranium.
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- adverb In a
craniological way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!
Waverley 2004
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Novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!
The Waverley 1877
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If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency!
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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Squills has just discovered that I have no bump of cautiousness; so that, craniologically speaking, if I had escaped one imprudence, I should certainly have run my head against another. "
The Caxtons — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Squills has just discovered that I have no bump of cautiousness; so that, craniologically speaking, if I had escaped one imprudence, I should certainly have run my head against another. "
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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