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Definition of Anthropophagous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to eaters of human flesh.
Definition of Anthropophagous
1. a. Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.
Definition of Anthropophagous
1. Adjective. Who practices anthropophagy. "''Antropophagous tribes''". ¹
2. Adjective. Cannibal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anthropophagous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropophagous
Literary usage of Anthropophagous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of an Ill-fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira by Neville B. Craig, Madeira and Mamoré association (1907)
"OUR anthropophagous ACQUAINTANCES " The very tigers from their delves Look out
and let them pass, as things Untam'd and fearless like themselves. ..."
2. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"Before Columbus's arrival the first inhabitants - of the island lived in constant
dread of the neighboring islanders, the Caribs, who were anthropophagous ..."
3. All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"... this day I am glad that it did, for, as it afterwards transpired, she had
availed herself of the anthropophagous customs of the ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"... stranger to the anthropophagous bosom, arose there mysteriously under clothes ; "
and his conclusion is quite in line with the modern conviction that ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"They are still partly anthropophagous. Domestic animals are rarely kept; tobacco
is taken as snuff; poisoned weapons arc generally used. ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"... &c., forming an anthropophagous group whose migration is recent. The dispersion
of these different negro tribes over West Africa ("with the exception of ..."
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