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"text": "Known still less than Della Porta is the figure of Camillo Baldi, an early-seventeenth-century Bolognese physician and university professor who advanced the discussion from the study of physiognomy and skull sizes to the study of characteriology based on writing. I am still not sure what to make of this treatise on onychomancy, that is, divining by observing the fingernails, except that he accounted for the practice as an example of the acute application of observational technique to the signs and symbols left by intelligent nature for humans to decipher in view of some benefit.",
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"ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 251, column 2:",
"text": "Faith ſir a has an Engliſh maine, but his fiſnomie is more hotter in France then there.",
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},
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"ref": "1879, A. de Quatrefages, “Chapter XXII. Formation of Human Races under the Sole Influence of Conditions of Life and Heredity”, in The Human Species. Book VII: Primitive Man — Formation of the Human Races., page 255:",
"text": "The Negro transported into the same countries has also undergone remarkable changes. His colour has paled, his features have improved, and his physiognomy is altered. “In the space of 150 years,” says M. Elisée Reclus, “they have passed a good fourth of the distance which separates them from the whites, as far as external appearance goes.”",
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"cast",
"cast"
],
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"expression",
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{
"glosses": [
"The art of telling fortunes by inspection of the features."
],
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"text": "the physiognomy of a plant; of a meteor",
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"ref": "1913, Fr. Crastre, translated by Frederic Taber Cooper, Rosa Bonheur: Masterpieces in Color, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:",
"text": "According to artists, the lion is the most difficult of all animals to paint, on account of the prodigious mobility of his physiognomy. Rosa Bonheur was able, thanks to her inimitable art, to catch and reproduce the fugitive facial expressions of the kingly beast [...]",
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"ipa": "/fɪziˈɒɡnəmi/",
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{
"word": "fisnomie"
},
{
"word": "fisnomy"
},
{
"word": "phisnomy"
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{
"word": "physnomie"
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{
"word": "physnomy"
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{
"word": "visnomie"
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "fisionomie"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fizionomika",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "физиономика"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fisonomia"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "面相學"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miànxiàngxué",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "面相学"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fyziognomie"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fysiognomi"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "åsynskundskab"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "fysiognomia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "physiognomonie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Physiognomik"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fysiognomikí",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φυσιογνωμική"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "fiziognómia"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fysiognomi"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fysiognomi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fisiognomia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fisiognomonia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fiziognomonie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fizionómika",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "физионо́мика"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fiziognómika",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"dated",
"feminine"
],
"word": "физиогно́мика"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fysionomik"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mukhākr̥ti",
"sense": "art or pseudoscience of deducing the character or personality from the bodily appearance",
"word": "ముఖాకృతి"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fysiognomía",
"sense": "countenance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φυσιογνωμία"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "countenance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fysionomi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"All's Well that Ends Well",
"physiognomy"
],
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}
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