physiognomical love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as physiognomic.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to physiognomy.

Etymologies

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physiognomy +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • With that, and with an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients, such as mischief, cunning, malice, triumph, and patient expectation, were all mixed up together in a kind of physiognomical punch, Miss Miggs composed herself to wait and listen, like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • With that, and with an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients, such as mischief, cunning, malice, triumph, and patient expectation, were all mixed up together in a kind of physiognomical punch, Miss Miggs composed herself to wait and listen, like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller.

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

  • With that, and with an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients, such as mischief, cunning, malice, triumph, and patient expectation, were all mixed up together in a kind of physiognomical punch, Miss Miggs composed herself to wait and listen, like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller.

    Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens 1841

  • With that, and with an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients, such as mischief, cunning, malice, triumph, and patient expectation, were all mixed up together in a kind of physiognomical punch, Miss Miggs composed herself to wait and listen, like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller.

    Barnaby Rudge 1840

  • And one final note: Pod has "a round, currant-bunny sort of face", not Christopher Eccleston's bony beauty: cosy 50s baker, not Gotterdammerung in physiognomical form.

    TV review: The Borrowers; The Royal Bodyguard 2011

  • Based in Aristotelian physiognomical inference (Prior Analytics II 27, 70b 7 – 4 and the Ps-Aristotelian third century b.c. e. treatise Physiognomy) was rooted in many disciplines, such as medicine (Galen), rhetorics (Polemo), and ethics.

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • In like manner, his physiognomical expression seemed to teem with benignity.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • Grinder to her arms, who embraced her with a face of unutterable woe, and like a victim as he was, resumed his former seat, close by the side of his venerable friend, whom he suffered, not without much constrained sweetness of countenance, combating very expressive physiognomical revelations of an opposite character to draw his arm through hers, and keep it there.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • That was the only physiognomical attention her visage would receive.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Saints, knew as well what work he was at, as their countryman Le Brun could have known it himself, though he had made that English traveller the subject of a special physiognomical treatise.

    Little Dorrit 2007

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