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Definition of Anthropomorphise
1. Verb. Ascribe human features to something.
Generic synonyms: Ascribe, Assign, Attribute, Impute
Derivative terms: Anthropomorphism, Anthropomorphism
Definition of Anthropomorphise
1. Verb. (chiefly British) (alternative spelling of anthropomorphize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropomorphise
Literary usage of Anthropomorphise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... less apt than Hebrews, Greeks, or peasant Christians to remain on the level
of their highest conceptions. They will anthropomorphise, reduce Baiame to a ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"Augustine was the first great theologian to strongly anthropomorphise God and
attribute to Him a personality analogous to our own ; the first to consider ..."
3. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"The tendency to anthropomorphise transcendental concepts of the reason was in
Kant's view the outcome of natural and inevitable illusions and ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
"«î Wre no longer anthropomorphise the deity—at least not openly. The man who
called his sermon "a Metaphorical bird's-eye view of God" Journalism £ cle ..."
5. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... to be even less apt than Hebrews, Greeks, or peasant Christians to remain on
the level of their highest conceptions. They will anthropomorphise, reduce ..."
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