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Noun
phisnomy (plural phisnomies)
- Obsolete spelling 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.
- 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
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