metoposcopy
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Etymology edit
From Middle French metoposcopie, and its source, Late Latin metoposcopia, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”) + -scopy.
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Noun edit
metoposcopy (uncountable)
- The practice of judging someone's character, or telling their fortune, from studying their face or forehead.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York 2001, p.208:
- Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy […].