Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
physiognomist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Physiognomist.
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- noun archaic A
physiognomist .
Etymologies
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physiognomy + -er
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Examples
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Socrates was bad by nature, envious, as he confessed to Zophius the physiognomer, accusing him of it, froward and lascivious: but as he was Socrates, he did correct and amend himself.
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"I aint no great of a physiognomer, but when a thing is as plain as day I can discern it as well as the next one, and if that ar 'chap haint pitied you, and done a heap more'n that, I'm mistaken."
Cousin Maude Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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