phisnomy

English

Noun

phisnomy (plural phisnomies)

  1. Obsolete form 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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