phisnomy
English
Noun
phisnomy (plural phisnomies)
- (obsolete) Synonym of physiognomy
- 1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly and Learned, London, Sermon 11, p. 201,
- The fyrst that I reade of that thus painted her phisnomy was the noughtye quene Iesabell, the common butcher and murderer of all the preachers and prophetes of almightye God.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV [Scene 5], in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623 (First Folio), p. 251,
- Faith sir a has an English maine, but his fisnomie is more hotter in France then there.
- 1687, Aphra Behn, The Emperor of the Moon, London: Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, Act III, p. 51,
- Faith Seignior, now I look better on you, I do not like your Phisnomy so well as your Intellects […]
- 1557, Roger Edgeworth, Sermons Very Fruitfull, Godly and Learned, London, Sermon 11, p. 201,
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