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."
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Then out for the last round came the four contenders�and a physiognomist could have picked the winner.
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On inspecting our engraving, the physiognomist will readily detect several of the more prominent traits of his character.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
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