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phrenological, a.|frɛnəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] Of or pertaining to phrenology; connected with or relating to phrenology.
1823(title) Phrenological Journal. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. I. App. ii, When I publish the results [of my enquiry] they will disprove a hundred times over all the phrenological assertions in regard to the cerebellum. 1870Dickens E. Drood xvii, As to the phrenological formation of the backs of their heads. Hence phrenoˈlogically adv.
1838E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 44 Phrenologically speaking, he must be fully and equally furnished with the bumps of ideality and causality. 1846Poe G. Bush Wks. 1864 III. 23 The forehead, phrenologically, indicates causality and comparison, with deficient ideality. |