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metoposcopy|mɛtəʊˈpɒskəpɪ|
Also 7 erron. metap-.
[ad. mod.L. metōposcopi-a, f. metōposcopus (see metoposcopist).]
1. The art of judging a person's character or of telling his fortune from his forehead or face.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 50 b, Metoposcopie..doth auaunte that she can foretel al mens beginninges, proceedinges, and endinges..by the onely beholding of the foreheade. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. iii. A rule..In metaposcopie, which I doe worke by. 1696Aubrey Misc. 38 There was a Seam in the middle of his Fore head (downwards) which is a very ill sign in Metoposcopie. 1746Parsons in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 47 The Art of Physiognomy, especially the Metoposcopy, or what relates to the Face. 1893Leland Mem. II. 248 Interested..as he always was in anything like chiromancy or metoscopy [sic].
2. The physiognomical characters of a man's forehead.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 200 This is the Metoposcopy of an excellent man. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxv. 203 Thou hast the Metoposcopy, and Physiognomy of a Cuckold. c1886L. Hearn in G. M. Gould Concerning L. Hearn (1908) 87 ‘Are you not a Greek?’ I asked, for there was no mistaking the metoposcopy of that head. Yes; he was from Zante. |