Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character or the dispositions of men by their features or the lines of the face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.
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- noun The practice of judging someone's character, or telling their fortune, from studying their
face orforehead .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his
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At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, — I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, — I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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After looking Panurge in the face and making conclusions by metoposcopy and physiognomy, he casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.
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After looking Panurge in the face and making conclusions by metoposcopy and physiognomy, he casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, -- I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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