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.
   • 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 […].