physiognomist
Americannoun
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"He is everything in extremes�always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a physiognomist of power, celebrity, rank and beauty, he was as celebrated in Georgian England as Rubens had been in baroque Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the aged physiognomist: "We are here to fill the hours with revelry; to see each other with glances of Mertonian eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then out for the last round came the four contenders�and a physiognomist could have picked the winner.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man's low brow scowled fitfully: he was somewhat ill-looking to the eye of a physiognomist.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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