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cranioscopist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English cranioscopy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English cranioscopist From cranioscopy + -ist.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A 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:

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