10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISNOMIE»
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
PHLEBOTOMY fisnomie), spelt phisnamy in Palsgrave; and phisnomy is short for
Physiognomy, q. v. PHLEBOTOMY, blood-letting. (F.—L.—Gk.) Spelt phlebotomie
in Minsheu, ed. 1627; flabotomye in Dictes and Sayings, pr. by Caxton, fol.
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The Recreative Review, Or Eccentricities of Literature and Life
For this same holy fisnomie of the Veronica, was set uppon good grounds, and is,
therefore, so well sprung up, and in such pleutie, that there are to be found a
number of them, al which doe worke great myracles.” (p. 195.) St. Veronica, it is ...
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The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as ...
The word “philosomye,” in which the Z is written over a long “s” lying beneath it, is
obviously intended for phisonomye, i. e. physiognomy, spelt vimomie by Spenser,
and fisnomie in the Promptorium Parvulorum. I have no doubt that 1.
Walter W. Skeat, Couldrette,
1866
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The British Bibliographer
... according to the Italian style, "' a nobleman," says Nash, adopting the phrases
of Harvey, distinguished by “ new-rirshioncd 21|\parell and Tuscanish gestures,
cringing side necke, eyes glauncing, fisnomie smirk.ing;” and again, speaking of
...
Samuel-Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, Thomas Tusser,
1810
The Q form 'Phisiognomy' is more correct than Shakespeare's only other use of
the word, in AW 4.5.40, where F reads 'fisnomie': there the Clown, Lavatch, uses
it to refer less specifically to the face and its appearance. 1396 either . . . cither's ...
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen,
2007
Collcoomed wis his tiv o hair, Hit, ill-trift, will growe nae mair. Quhan the reik and
vapour rase, Lampill wes, be Goddis grase, Laft on lyff, yit on his bak: Chaffar deir
coft with the crak! Fyngirris, face, and fisnomie War ane blak anatomie, And his ...
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The History of English Spelling
Phlegm and physiognomy acquired their present spellings after the revival of Gr
learning around 1500; previously they had forms such as fleme, fisnomie.
Physiognomy is generally pronounced without lgl in BrE, but with lgl in AmE. -
Cygnet is ...
Christopher Upward, George Davidson,
2011
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The British Bibliographer
c, ' the glass of fediion" in those days, according to the Italian style, " a notilumin,"
says Nash, adopting the phrases of Harvey, distinguished by «' ncw-/ashioncd ap
- parell and Tuscanish gestures, cringing s'de nedce, eyes glauncirg, fisnomie t ...
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood,
1810
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The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes from various ...
... distinguished by " new-fashioned apparell and Tuscanish gestures, cringing
tide necke, eyes glaunciug, fisnomie tmirking ;" and again, speaking of these
Letters to Spenser, he names the Earl of Oxford expressly : Harvey " " came verie
short ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd,
1868
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The Chambers Dictionary
Seefisc. fisnomie/ir no-mi, (Shakesp) n physiognomy. f issicostate ';' - M-A in MI.
adj having divided ribs. [Lfissus, horn findere to cleave, and cosia rib] fissile fis'il
or -//, adj readily split; capable of nuclear fission. — nfisslltty (-i/ ) ability to be split,
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