Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
physiognomy , 1.
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Examples
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The exceptionally acute psychiatrist Meynert shows11 how physiognomics depends on irradiation and parallel images.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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But physiognomics concerns itself with the features of the face taken in themselves and with the changes which accompany the alterations of consciousness, whereas mimicry deals with the voluntary alterations of expression and gesture which are supposed to externalize internal conditions.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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“physiognomics” a deep truth; but this truth is not expressible in definite words and lines.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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