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Cranioscopist
Craˊni-os′co-pist
(kr?ˊn?-?s′k?-p?st)
, Noun.
One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.
It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the
cranioscopists
. Coleridge.
Definition 2024
cranioscopist
cranioscopist
English
Noun
cranioscopist (plural cranioscopists)
- (archaic) A person who makes deductions concerning someone's intellectual, emotional, or moral qualities by studying the features of that individual's skull; a phrenologist.
- 1863, Charles Carter Blake, "On the Cranial Characters of the Peruvian Races of Men," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 2, p. 228,
- It is very trying to the patience of a cranioscopist to study the pages of Morton. Few of the skulls are placed in any uniform position.
- 1863, Charles Carter Blake, "On the Cranial Characters of the Peruvian Races of Men," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 2, p. 228,