phrenologicaladj.

1820 G. S. Mackenzie Illustr. of Phrenology 28 The legitimate objects of Phrenological Science..are improvements in criminal legislation, in education, and in the treatment of insanity.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. App. 408 When I publish its [sc. an enquiry's] results, they will disprove a hundred times over all the phrenological assertions in regard to the cerebellum.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvii. 129 As to the phrenological formation of the backs of their heads.

1911 E. Ferber in Buttered Side Down (1941) 18 You never would have picked Ted for a criminal. He had none of those interesting phrenological bumps and depressions that usually are shown to such frank advantage in the Bertillon photographs.

1942 Amer. Lit. 14 89 Miss Fuller has already been subjected to both phrenological and Freudian analysis, with much stir and little wool resulting.

1984 K. Chase Eros & Psyche iii. 55 Brontë submitted her skull to phrenological examination; George Eliot had a cast of her head made.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians ix. 104 Phrenological ways of viewing human nature had a profound effect on the development not just of medicine but of anthropology.

1824 Times 11 Mar. 3/2 Assume fairly that, phrenologically, ‘this man should or should not have done thus;’ and even then we protest against the man's real conduct being held conclusive, or even material, for or against the given opinion.

1838 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 44 Phrenologically speaking, he must be fully and equally furnished with the bumps of ideality and causality.

1918 J. Jastrow Psychol. of Conviction v. 153 In this controversy Gall argued physiologically, not phrenologically.

2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 16 May d12 Your Bay Area center for prosthetic head bumps for the phrenologically challenged.