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cranioscopist

cranioscopist 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.

Noun

cranioscopist (plural cranioscopists)

  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

Forms of cranioscopist

pluralcranioscopists

Origin of cranioscopist

From cranioscopy + -ist.

Questions about cranioscopist

What does cranioscopist mean?
Cranioscopist means a person who makes deductions concerning someone's intellectual, emotional, or moral qualities by studying the features of that individual's skull; a phrenologist.
What part of speech is cranioscopist?
Cranioscopist is a noun.
What is the plural of cranioscopist?
The plural of cranioscopist is cranioscopists.

Words near cranioscopist in the dictionary

  1. cranioschisis
  2. craniosclerosis
  3. cranioscopic
  4. cranioscopical
  5. cranioscopies
  6. cranioscopist
  7. cranioscopists
  8. cranioscopy
  9. cranioskeletal
  10. craniosophic
  11. craniospinal

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