Definition of Physiognomic

1. a. Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Definition of Physiognomic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to physiognomy ¹

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Definition of Physiognomic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physiognomic

physics lab
physics laboratory
physics package
physio
physio-
physioball
physiochemical
physiocrat
physiocratic
physiocrats
physiogenic
physiogeny
physiognomer
physiognomers
physiognomic (current term)
physiognomical
physiognomically
physiognomies
physiognomist
physiognomists
physiognomize
physiognomized
physiognomizes
physiognomizing
physiognomonic
physiognomy
physiognosis
physiognotrace
physiogony

Literary usage of Physiognomic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"physiognomic CURIOSITIES. BY FELIX L. OSWALD, MD IF the proper study of mankind is man, it is a remarkable circumstance that the most important departments ..."

2. Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"POSTSCRIPT ON THE physiognomic CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. IN the preceding sketch of a "Physiognomy of Plants," I have had principally in view three 'nearly ..."

3. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"... POSTSCRIPT physiognomic CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. IN the preceding sketch of a " Physiognomy of Plants/' I have had principally in view three nearly ..."

4. Mind and Work: The Psychological Factors in Industry and Commerce by Charles Samuel Myers (1921)
"... Air Service, and Admiralty selection tests—"General impressions"—"Phrenological" and physiognomic tests—Classification and use of mental tests—Blind- ..."

5. Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including the Anatomy of the Organ by Anton Friedrich Tröltsch, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1869)
"Physiological and anatomical division of the auditory apparatus; the auricle (its physiognomic significance); the structure of the external auditory canal ..."

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