physiognomy
noun
the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character.
physiognomically
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a word derived from
physiognomy.
Example Sentences
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Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
The explanation of the mode in which the action of the muscles of the face becomes physiognomically expressive.—Ibid.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
Yet I am told that my eyes, eyebrows, and forehead are physiognomically good; but of this the deponent knoweth not.
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Nut If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
