What is "physiognomic"

Usage examples of "physiognomic".

Fergusson insisted that they obtain a pachyderm specimen so that he could perform meticulous physiognomic measurements on the size and thickness of the ears, the biological hydraulics of the trunk, and the protective qualities of the hide.

He recognizes the Berlioz exclusively from the physiognomic description given in the literature.

Washington Abacus, Physiognomic Operator and Professor of the Tonsorial Art.

The only physiognomic problem with Albertine was her tendency to burn out the cells, like in diseases of senescence.

He could see them all well enough, arranged by physiognomic type around the table, a menagerie of cunning and talkative gentlefolk, only the weird names he could not always say aloud.

LSD before, did you ever experience a physiognomic alteration of this sort?

Her looks were neither Oriental nor Caucasian, nor any other earthly physiognomic variation.

Biddy said nothing to Peter Sherringham, but there was no flatness in a silence which heaved, as it were, with the fairest physiognomic portents.

Moreover, if our observer were himself at all sensitive to facial expression, he would come to recognize in every one of our innumerable physiognomic types an indescribable but distinctively human look, the visible sign of that inward and spiritual grace which is not wholly absent from his own species.

But in a moment he returned, another man with him who might have been his twin brother, so strongly pronounced in each were the racial physiognomic characteristics.

Basically, his design consisted of a multifaced quartz lens hooked to a miniaturized computer whose memory banks held up to a million and a half physiognomic fraction-representations of various people: men and women, children, with every variant encoded and then projected outward in all directions equally onto a superthin shroudlike membrane large enough to fit around an average human.