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Definition of Anthropomorphic

1. Adjective. Suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things.

Definition of Anthropomorphic

1. a. Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism.

Definition of Anthropomorphic

1. Adjective. Having the form of a man ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of inanimate objects animals or other non-human entities) given human attributes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anthropomorphic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Anthropomorphic

1. Of or pertaining to anthromorphism. Hadley. Anthropomor"phically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropomorphic

Literary usage of Anthropomorphic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"No doubt the agency of art did assist the anthropomorphic development, but we cannot date its influence in this process, and the personal godhead of Ge ..."

2. Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society by Lester Frank Ward (1906)
"Ideas of this class are called anthropomorphic ideas. The expression is quite correct, because, ... Most early religious ideas are anthropomorphic. ..."

3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1875)
"anthropomorphic RELIGION. THOSE who cling, in this age of restless and unquiet thought, to the broad substance of the faith of Christendom—those even who, ..."

4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"De Mirville is only the faithful son of his Church, interested in keeping Cain in his anthropomorphic character and in his present place in " Holy Writ. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The former is the use of anthropomorphic devices to gam one's end from the spirits. Chinese sailors carry paper junks to throw overboard in a hurricane so ..."

6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"A form of TELEOLOGY (qv), in which the concept of finality is anthropomorphic and is carried into the details of nature. It is the ground for the argument ..."

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