visnomy

English

Noun

visnomy (countable and uncountable, plural visnomies)

1. Obsolete form of physiognomy.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     With sorrow dimmed and deform'd it were ,
     The goodly ymage of your visnomy