Lavater, Johann Kaspar, German clergyman, a mystic thinker and writer on physiognomy, born at Zurich; wrote “Outlooks to Eternity,” and a work on physiognomy, or the art of judging of character from the features of the face (1741‒1804).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
La Vallière, Duchesse de * Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent