craniologist

English

Etymology

craniology +‎ -ist

Noun

craniologist (plural craniologists)

1. Someone proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.
   • 1863, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, volume 63, page 73:

     Every scheme of the craniologist for systematising ethnical variations of cranial configuration, and every process of induction pursued by the ethnologist from such data, proceed on the assumption that such varieties in the form of cranium are constant within certain determinate limits, and originate in like natural causes with the features by which we distinguish one nation from another.

References

• “craniologist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.