cranioscopist

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noun

A person who makes deductions concerning someone's intellectual, emotional, or moral qualities by studying the features of that individual's skull; a phrenologist.

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Meanings

nouncranioscopist (plural cranioscopists)

plural cranioscopists

  1. archaicA person who makes deductions concerning someone's intellectual, emotional, or moral qualities by studying the features of that individual's skull; a phrenologist.

    It is very trying to the patience of a cranioscopist to study the pages of Morton. Few of the skulls are placed in any uniform position.

    1863, Charles Carter Blake, “On the Cranial Characters of the Peruvian Races of Men,”, in Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 228

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
phrenologist

Origin

From cranioscopy + -ist.

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