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单词 physiognomize
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physiognomizev.

Brit. /ˌfɪzɪˈɒnəmʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌfɪziˈɑ(ɡ)nəmaɪz/
Forms: 1600s 1900s– physiognomize, 1600s– physiognomise, 1800s fizzonomise (irregular).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: physiognomy n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < physiognomy n. + -ize suffix. With sense 2 compare post-classical Latin phisionomizare (13th cent. in a British source), French physionomiser (1630), both in sense ‘to study facial features’, and earlier physiognomist n.
1. transitive. To assume the physiognomy or characteristic appearance of. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)] > assume appearance
clothe1393
physiognomize1653
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie Pref. sig. Bv Archangel physiognomising the fingers.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie sig. Bij Divers plants physiognomize the horns of Beasts, as Cornop, Plaintain.
2. transitive. To examine or study physiognomically; to infer something about (a person, personal attribute, etc.) from physiognomy. Also intransitive.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > analysis from bodily features > examine features [verb (transitive)]
physiognomize1660
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 44 Before he had physiognomized the man what he were.
1796 R. Southey Let. 24 Feb. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 269 I defy you or Mr. Shandy to physiognomise that man's name rightly.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 173 That good lady who, as you remember, physiognomised me so luckily for ‘a man of sorrow and acquainted with woe’.
1845 Ld. Lorne Let. 25 Oct. in Lady F. Balfour Ne Obliviscaris (1930) I. i. 5 One can go round and phrenologise and fizzonomise.
1972 T'Ung-Tsu Ch'u & J. L. Dull Han Social Structure 254 Lü liked to physiognomize people, and it was because he noticed Kao-tsu's appearance and features that he greatly honored him.
2002 M. Csikszentmihalyi in B. W. Van Norden Confucius & Analects vii. 137 Hàn specialists could evaluate or physiognomize animals, swords, and people through observation of their external characteristics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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