单词 | bumpological |
释义 | bumpologicaladj. Chiefly humorous. Now historical and rare. Of or relating to the pseudoscientific study of bumps on the skull; phrenological. Cf. bumpology n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [adjective] cranioscopic1813 craniological1815 cranioscopical1820 phrenological1820 phrenologic1821 bumpological1826 1826 Evangelical Mag. Dec. 515/2 Another publication..quite as fatal to all bumpological reveries. 1889 Michigan Med. News 10 May 136/2 A phrenologist..expatiated on the excellence of bumpological science. 2003 L. Østermark-Johansen Angles on Eng.-speaking World III. 151 The ‘bumpological mania’ which swept over England in the 1820s. Derivatives bumpoˈlogically adv. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [adverb] phrenologically1824 bumpologically1827 1827 Kaleidoscope 31 July 31/2 Were the priest and the Levite equally venerable with the good Samaritan?—only bumpologically so! 1848 J. Richardson Trav. Sahara I. vi. 166 This afternoon examined phrenologically, bumpologically, the heads of many children. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1826 |
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