physiognomist
Americannoun
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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
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
With them may also be named two noble sons of the Reformed church, the physiognomist Lavater, a.d. 1741-1801, and the devout dreamer, Jung-Stilling, a.d. 1740-1817.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
"My dog is a good physiognomist; he knows best," would be the rejoinder; and the war would recommence with greater fury than ever.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Susanna Moodie
The prince, a practised physiognomist, was subject to involuntary likes and dislikes upon the first interview with an individual, and these impulses were in his case almost invariably borne out by after-circumstances.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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