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Definition of Physiognomical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physiognomical
Literary usage of Physiognomical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But in its second aspect it touched astrology, of which Galen* says that the
physiognomical part is the greater, and this aspect of the subject bulked ..."
2. Lectures on the Principles and Methods of Medical Observation and Research by Thomas Laycock (1857)
"PHYSICAL AND physiognomical DIAGNOSES SHOULD CORRECT EACH OTHER.—There is another
advantage ... physiognomical DIAGNOSIS OF MORBID CONSTITUTIONAL STATES. ..."
3. Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy: To which is Prefixed by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Nahum Capen (1836)
"The discovery of the conditions which are necessary to the performance of function
is the object of physiognomical research. This section will be found ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"in its completion, by the translator, and the artist ; nor without adding that,
independently of its physiognomical illustrations, it will be esteemed ..."
5. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"The physiognomical diagnosis of expression is a very important point in all cases
in which simulation of insanity is suspected; and skill in this department ..."
6. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"... to the force which unconscious imitation is known to exercise over a weak mind.
g 404. The physiognomical diagnosis of expression is a very important ..."
7. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon (1846)
"... at Joon—His costume — physiognomical doctrines — The Prince's remarks on Lady
Hester—Dr. Bowring—Lady Hester's remarks on the Prince— Race of Abyssinian ..."
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