Lombroso

American  

[lom-broh-soh, lawm-braw-saw] / lɒmˈbroʊ soʊ, lɔmˈbrɔ sɔ /

noun

1. Cesare 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.

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Lombroso British  

/ lomˈbroːso /

noun

1. Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1836–1909, Italian criminologist: he postulated the existence of a criminal type

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Example Sentences

A collection of human specimens, including 712 skulls, is now preserved in the Cesare Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Saleh-Hanna sees that as a fundamental problem in the field, one going all the way back to Lombroso.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Where Lombroso used calipers and craniographs, Kosinski has been using neural networks to find patterns in photos scraped from the internet.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2018

Lombroso would have approved, but they have little appeal to the liberal mind.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

This small piece of furniture struck against the chair on which M. Lombroso was seated, and tried to hoist itself up on our table.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille