Craniologist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

    "Every scheme of the craniologist for systematising ethnical variations of cranial configuration, and every process of induction pursued by the ethnologist from such data, proceed on the assumption that such varieties in the form of cranium are constant within certain determinate limits, and originate in like natural causes with the features by which we distinguish one nation from another."

  2. 2
    someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull wordnet

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phrenologistphrenologist

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"Every scheme of the craniologist for systematising ethnical variations of cranial configuration, and every process of induction pursued by the ethnologist from such data, proceed on the assumption that such varieties in the form of cranium are constant within certain determinate limits, and originate in like natural causes with the features by which we distinguish one nation from another."

Etymology

From craniology + -ist.

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