a. [f. as CRANIOLOGY + -IC + -AL. (In mod.F. craniologique.)] Of or pertaining to craniology.

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  † 1.  = PHRENOLOGICAL: see CRANIOLOGY 1. Obs.

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1815.  Edin. Rev., XXV. 227. Long before this time we should have looked for his craniological death.

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a. 1827.  G. Cruikshank (title), Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist’s View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim.

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  2.  Relating to the study of the characters of skulls: see CRANIOLOGY 2.

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1851.  D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), I. ix. 255. Craniological illustration of ethnic characteristics.

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1875.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. III. xliii. 478. Studying the craniological characters of the American Indians.

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