Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHRE-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φρην, the mind, and λογος, discourse.]

The science of the human mind and its various properties. Ch. Obs. Phrenology is now applied to the science of the mind as connected with the supposed organs of thought and passion in the brain, maintained by Gall, who supposed each faculty or propensity to have a particular organ, and this manifested in the form of the skull; craniology.