phrenologistn.
/frᵻˈnɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /frəˈnɑlədʒəst/ Now chiefly historical.
An expert in or student of phrenology; a person who assesses another's character or mental faculties by examining the shape of his or her cranium.
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1815 T. Forster in Pamphleteer 5 222 The Phrenologist admits an arrangement of certain organs, which gives us free-will.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 7 Call it..conformation of the brain..if you are..a phrenologist.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 33 A collection of heads that would have delighted a phrenologist.
1923 Observer 29 Apr. 11/4 The psychologist is a great advance on the mid-Victorian phrenologist, but not perhaps such a great advance as he would like us to believe.
1984 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot (1985) (BNC) 121 A phrenologist..once examined Flaubert and told him he was cut out to be a tamer of wild beasts.
2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 257 (caption) Despite the fact that phrenology for most people has been dismissed as a superstition or pseudo-science, modern-day phrenologists claim that their art has been misrepresented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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