cranioscopist

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English

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Etymology

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From cranioscopy +‎ -ist.

Noun

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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.
    • 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:
      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.