Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled or professing belief in cranioscopy; a phrenologist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A person who makes deductions concerning someone's
intellectual ,emotional , ormoral qualities by studying the features of that individual'sskull ; aphrenologist .
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Examples
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The brain, no less than the body, -- indeed, more fully than the body, -- shows the elements of the life and the tendency to health and longevity, or the reverse, upon which an expert cranioscopist can give an opinion.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 1856
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The good cranioscopist continually grows in knowledge, and solves all the problems of character presented in society.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 1856
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