phisnomy

English

Noun

phisnomy (plural phisnomies)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of physiognomy
   • 1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly and Learned, London, Sermon 11, p. 201,^[1]

     The fyrst that I reade of that thus painted her phisnomy was the noughtye quene Iesabell, the common butcher and murderer of all the preachers and prophetes of almightye God.

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV [Scene 5], in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623 (First Folio), p. 251,^[2]

     Faith sir a has an English maine, but his fisnomie is more hotter in France then there.

   • 1687, Aphra Behn, The Emperor of the Moon, London: Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, Act III, p. 51,^[3]

     Faith Seignior, now I look better on you, I do not like your Phisnomy so well as your Intellects […]

Alternative forms

• fisnomie, fisnomy, phisnomie, physnomie, physnomy

Anagrams

• simphony