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Definition of Anthropophagy
1. Noun. Human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh.
Definition of Anthropophagy
1. n. The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
Definition of Anthropophagy
1. Noun. The eating of human flesh; cannibalism. ¹
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Definition of Anthropophagy
1. [n -GIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropophagy
Literary usage of Anthropophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... ^y—anthropophagy—Preparation of foods—Fire—Pottery—Grinding of corn—Stimulants
and ... anthropophagy ..."
2. Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-legal Study by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1894)
"... and labia, in the victims (ten) of this modern Bluebeard, allows the presumption
that he seeks and finds still further satisfaction in anthropophagy. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"One of the strongest reasons for c^nsider- ing anthropophagy as having widely
... The extent to which anthropophagy has been carried among some nations is, ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"The classic ground for anthropophagy is still Africa, chiefly on the Guinea ...
More recently we have received news of tho existence of anthropophagy in the ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"anthropophagy has vanished with the people themselves from among the Iroquois
and Algonkin ; it has disappeared from among the people of the high plains of ..."
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