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physiognomic, a. (n.)|ˌfɪzɪəʊˈgnɒmɪk, ˌfɪzɪəʊˈnɒmɪk|
[ad. late L. physiognōmic-us (Fulgentius, c 550), corruption of Gr. ϕυσιογνωµονικ-ός, f. ϕυσιογνωµονία: see physiognomy and -ic. In OF. physionomique (15th c. in Godef. Compl.), in mod.F. physiognomonique (Dict. Trévoux 1732).]
A. adj.
1. Of the nature of physiognomy; relating to the face or form as indicating character; characteristic.
1755Johnson, Physiognomic, drawn from the contemplation of the face. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxii. 166 The very spirit which gives the physiognomic expression to all the works of nature. 1856Kingsley Lett. 26 Feb., It is sad to see how much faults of character seem to depend on physiognomic defects. 1868Contemp. Rev. IX. 75 Currents of thought and feeling which are physiognomic of the atmosphere he lives in.
2. Of, pertaining to, or skilled in physiognomy; ‘conversant in contemplation of the face’ (J.).
1755in Johnson. 1818Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 146 There is great physiognomic tact in Sterne. 1885Coupland Spirit Goethe's Faust i. 11 Such physiognomic science [is] lighter than a water-bug.
3. Ecol. Of or pertaining to the physiognomy of a plant community (physiognomy 4 b).
1911Bevis & Jeffery Brit. Plants ii. 16 The physio⁓gnomic groups into which we have divided the vegetation (woodland, grassland, heath, etc.) are only in part associated with definite types of climate. 1926Tansley & Chipp Study of Vegetation x. 204 It is..by the physio⁓gnomic characters of the vegetation, especially when correlated with some topographic feature, that the traveller will find it easiest to recognise and record the chief types of vegetation in the course of his journey. 1951Ecology XXXII. 279/2 The practical aspects of the physiognomic method are reflected in its use by foresters. 1959New Scientist 29 Oct. 803/2 When the change in climatic pattern is gradual, the change in physiognomic type is correspondingly slow and vice versa. 1971Nature 18 June 430/1 The Radforth muskeg classification system..is based on physiognomic characteristics.
B. n. (in pl.) See quots.
[1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Physiognomica, Signs whereby we conjecture something by the Countenance.] 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Physiognomicks,..a Term used by some Physicians and Naturalists for such Signs as are taken from the Countenance of Persons, to judge of their Dispositions and Temper. 1727–41in Chambers Cycl. 1828in Webster, and in later Dicts. |