Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One skilled in physiognomy

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as physiognomy, 1.
  • noun One skilled in physiognomy.
  • noun One who tells fortunes by physiognomy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who studies, or is an expert in, physiognomy; one who studies the outer appearance of the person (primarily the face) to acquire knowledge of the inner personality.

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Examples

  • [Headnote 1: LA VA 'TER, (John Gaspar,) a celebrated physiognomist, that is, one skilled in the art of determining character by the external features, born in Zurich, in 1741.]

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

  • Thenardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • “Ay,” answered Hayraddin, “it required neither astrologer, or physiognomist, nor chiromantist to foretell that I should follow the destiny of my family.”

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • One feature only commended this face to the physiognomist.

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • There was the fat boy, perfectly motionless, with his large circular eyes staring into the arbour, but without the slightest expression on his face that the most expert physiognomist could have referred to astonishment, curiosity, or any other known passion that agitates the human breast.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • One feature only commended this face to the physiognomist.

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • The landlord, whether he was a good or a bad physiognomist, had fully made up his mind that the guest was an ill – looking fellow.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • No physiognomist that ever dwelt on earth could have construed

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution, which nature had made obvious to the most ordinary physiognomist, perhaps with the same intention that she has given the rattle to the poisonous snake.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Every man under such circumstances is conscious of being a great physiognomist.

    Adam Bede 2004

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