† metoˈposcoper Obs.
[Formed as metoposcopist + -er1.]
= metoposcopist.
| 1569 J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 50 b, A certaine man..did so passingly depainte the likenesses of Images that by them the Metoposcoper hath tolde the yeares of death paste or to come. 1649 Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. iii. 146 Whatsoever inward..affection of the mind is..observed by Metoposcopers and others to appeare in the Forehead. |