Noun:

பொருள்களின் பொது அமைப்பு, முகத் தோற்றத்தில் இருந்து ஒருவரின் குணத்தை அறியும் கலை,

physiognomy's Usage Examples:

But the costume and physiognomy of the inhabitants, the narrow streets and flatroofed, whitewashed houses, and more than all, the thousands of palm-trees in its gardens and fields, give the place a strikingly Oriental aspect, and render it unique among the cities of Spain.

(5) The physiognomy given to Kheta warriors by Egyptian artists is fairly representative of the prevailing type shown in the Hittite sculptures.

The few works which have since appeared, before the rise of the physiological school of Sir Charles Bell and Charles Darwin, are undeserving of notice, the development of phrenology having given to pure physiognomy the coup de grace by taking into itself whatever was likely to live of the older science.

For information on artistic anatomy as applied to physiognomy see th catalogue of sixty-two authors by Ludwig Choulant, Geschichte and Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung, 'c.

physiognomyn physiognomies and woody flora of the cerrado biome.

Nothing in the general physiognomy of the islands is more remarkable than the number and distribution of the volcanoes, active or extinct.

Their general physiognomy is hardly Cilician or Hittite, but European.

Thus far physiognomy is a branch of physiology.

Yobai, the reputed compiler of the Zohar; (6) " The Secret of Secrets," a treatise on physiognomy and psychology; (7) " The Aged," i.

Then he studies the physiognomy of the sexes, and the characters derived from the different features, and from colour, hair, body, limbs, gait and voice.

The general physiognomy of the Indian flora is mainly determined by the conditions of humidity of climate.

The whole physiognomy is fleshy and markedly distinct from that of other Syrians.

1 While the earlier classical physiognomy was chiefly descriptive, the later medieval authors particularly developed the predictive and astrological side, their treatises often digressing into chiromancy, onychomancy, clidomancy, podoscopy, spasmatomancy, and other blanches of prophetic folk-lore and magic.

Synonyms:

smiler, visage, countenance, face, kisser, human face, mug, human head, pudding face, phiz, pudding-face,

Antonyms:

windward, leeward, front, proportional font, fixed-width font,