craniognomy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CRANIOGNOMY, noun [Gr., the skull, and knowledge; index; Latin , the skull.] The doctrine or science of determining the properties or characteristics of the mind by the conformation of the skull.
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