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psychometrist|saɪˈkɒmɪtrɪst|
[f. psychometer + -ist.]
1. = psychometer 1.
1864T. L. Nichols 40 Yrs. Amer. Life II. ii. 20 Then came psychometrists, who could tell the lives, characters, fortunes, and diseases of people they had never seen. 1879Spiritual Notes May 148/1 The psychometrist enters a room and is impressed with a vision of events that in some mysterious way have left their traces on its material fabric. 1900Referee 4 Mar. 2, I enter into rivalry with the palmists and psychometrists and prophets and prophetesses. 1903W. T. Stead in Review of Rev. July 32/1 A psychometrist..was to give a demonstration of her capacity. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvii. 289 Hearing of a psychometrist in Johannesburg, I took my piece of wood to her and asked her what she could tell me of its history. 1976Oxford Times 6 Feb. 15/1 Guest speakers and demonstrators include..a psychometrist—for whom vibrations received from personal belongings create a mental picture of the owner.
2. = psychometrician.
1932Psychol. Exchange I. 11 The deserving psychometrists are often not discriminated from those who have just taken up mental testing. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xiv. 82 The formal intelligence quotient was given as 65, but this was certainly a serious underestimate due to lack of cultural rapport with the psychometrist. 1974Maclean's Mag. (Toronto) May 12/2 He worked as a psychometrist measuring the abilities of children. |