metoposcopy

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French metoposcopie, and its source, Late Latin metoposcopia, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, forehead) +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metoposcopy (uncountable)

  1. The practice of judging someone's character, or telling their fortune, from studying their face or forehead.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York 2001, p.208:
      Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy […].