1.
a. The art of judging human character from facial features.
b. Divination based on facial features.
2.
a. Facial features, especially when regarded as revealing character.
b. Aspect and character of an inanimate or abstract entity: the physiognomy of New England.
[Middle English phisonomie, from Old French phisionomie, from Late Latin physiogn
mia, from Greek phusiognmi
, variant of phusiognmoni : phusio-, physio- + gnmn, gnmon-, interpreter; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]
mia, from Greek phusiognmi, variant of phusiognmoni : phusio-, physio- + gnmn, gnmon-, interpreter; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]phys
i·og·nom
ic (-
g-nm
k, -
-nmk), physi·og·nomi·cal (--kl) adj.
i·og·nomic (-g-nmk, --nmk), physi·og·nomi·cal (--kl) adj.physi·og·nomi·cal·ly adv.
i·og·nomi·cal·ly adv.physi·ogno·mist n.
i·ogno·mist n.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
We were then, for reasons which it is not worth while to specify, in the close neighbourhood of Kerguelen Land; and now, when I open an atlas and look at the tiny dots on the map of the Southern Ocean, I see as if engraved upon the paper the enraged physiognomy of that gale.The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph
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