metoposcopy

English

Etymology

From Middle French metoposcopie, and its source, Late Latin metoposcopia, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέτωπον (métōpon, “forehead”) +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɛtəˈpɒskəpi/

Noun

metoposcopy (uncountable)

  1. The practice of judging someone's character, or telling their fortune, from studying their face or forehead.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:
      , New York 2001, p.208:
      Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy […].
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