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- noun Plural form of
craniologist .
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Examples
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We leave the explanation of such anomalies to the labours of craniologists, for they seem to defy all the researches of the Ethic philosopher.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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As the decades wore on, evidence to support either Clarke or the craniologists became increasingly more difficult to find.
Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003
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As the decades wore on, evidence to support either Clarke or the craniologists became increasingly more difficult to find.
Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003
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As the decades wore on, evidence to support either Clarke or the craniologists became increasingly more difficult to find.
Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003
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'Bantu' is still in favor as a physical definition among craniologists.
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But still we must say that the way and method by which this skull measurement has, for ten years now, been pursued by numerous craniologists can never yield corresponding scientific results; on the contrary, though it is cried up as the "exact morphology" of the skull, it simply loses itself in the domains of harmless trifling.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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A large amount of time has in the last ten years been squandered in disputes as to the best method of measuring skulls, while the craniologists concerned have not, in the first place, answered the obviously most important question: What end they propose to gain by this specialist measuring, what proposition they mean to prove by it?
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Some craniologists of Dumfries were then permitted, in the name of so-called science, to desecrate his dust with their inhuman outrage.
Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852
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He had by one whole generation run before the phrenologists and craniologists, -- having already measured innumerable skulls amongst the omnigenous seafaring population of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men, -- and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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He had by one whole generation run before the phrenologists and craniologists, -- having already measured innumerable skulls amongst the omnigenous seafaring population of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men, -- and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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