physiognomist
Americannoun
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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
A blunt physiognomist would probably have declared that there was not enough of the devil in her to fire the blood even of an impetuous, generous boy and urge him on to recklessness.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
One must needs have been a talented physiognomist to divine what was taking place in that woman's heart.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
Ernest, who was no physiognomist, noticed nothing; and being mounted on his new hobby-horse, proceeded at once to give a history of his impressions since the previous morning.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
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