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  • noun Plural form of physiognomist.

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Examples

  • The physiognomists plotted Jewish noses, ears, and mouths.54 The anthropologists measured stature, chest sizes, head shapes, girth, and body mass.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The physiognomists plotted Jewish noses, ears, and mouths.54 The anthropologists measured stature, chest sizes, head shapes, girth, and body mass.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • But the boy was naturally of an undaunted temper; and indeed children are generally acute physiognomists, and not only pleased by that which is beautiful in itself, but peculiarly quick in distinguishing and replying to the attentions of those who really love them.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists →

    Walking on water « Jahsonic 2008

  • Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists

    Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic 2008

  • Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists

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  • But the son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his look that cast of inauspicious melancholy, by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic

    Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic 2008

  • Her hair and eyebrows were jet black (these latter may have been too thick according to some physiognomists, giving rather a stern expression to the eyes, and hence causing those guilty ones to tremble who came under her lash), but her complexion was as dazzlingly fair and her cheeks as red as Miss

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Nokes was a big fellow, with a broad, solid face, which would not have condemned him among physiognomists but for a bad eye, which could not look you in the face.

    Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

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