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Definition of Exophagy
1. a cannibal custom of eating other than one's kin [n EXOPHAGIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exophagy
Literary usage of Exophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... and is more or less sacred. We must not eat him, nor touch a woman also of
his blood." Here, under a taboo, are evolved exophagy and exogamy, ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"exophagy. See CANNIBALISM. In the Catholic Church the function of exorcism belongs
peculiarly to the third of the so-called ' minor orders ' (see ORDERS). ..."
3. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"... and totemistic exogamy and exophagy. 4 In place of being a perfectly pure
example of the totemistic ..."
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