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cranioscopists

cranioscopists is the plural of cranioscopist.

Meaning of cranioscopist

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

Questions about cranioscopists

What is cranioscopists the plural of?
Cranioscopists is the plural of cranioscopist.

Words near cranioscopists in the dictionary

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

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