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physiognomist|fɪzɪˈɒgnəmɪst, -ˈɒnəmɪst|
[a. OF. physionomiste (1557 in Godef. Compl.), f. physionomie: see -ist.]
One skilled in physiognomy; one who reads character or disposition (or, formerly, professed to foretell destiny) from the face.
1570Dee Math. Pref. c iv, The Anatomistes will restore to you, some part: The Physiognomistes, some. 1601Holland Pliny xxxv. x. 539 A certaine Physiognomist or teller of fortune. 1788Reid Active Powers ii. iii. 540 The physiognomist saw, in the features of Socrates, the signatures of many bad dispositions. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xv. 123 By no means a good physiognomist, much less a good judge of character. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ix, Her remarkable powers as a physiognomist.
Hence † physiognoˈmistic, -ical adjs., of or pertaining to a physiognomist; † physiˈognomistry, the art or trade of the physiognomist.
1651Biggs New Disp. §98 To be seen with Physiognomisticall corporall eyes. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 66. 2/1 We may include Palmistry, Physiognomistry, etc. |