Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Man-eating; hominivorous; feeding on human flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Who practices
anthropophagy . "Antropophagous tribes". - adjective
Cannibal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to eaters of human flesh
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Examples
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So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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How did I toss and tumble in mine; which, small as it was, I was not destined to enjoy alone, but to pass the night in company with anthropophagous wretched reptiles, who took their horrid meal off an English Christian!
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The Colonial government refused permission for mining, both because of Coral's colonists 'wishes to keep the planet whole, and because the Rraey's anthropophagous tendencies were well known.
Old Mans War 2005
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This had prompted the further speculation as to whether or not a Muslim might consider the taking of Holy Communion to be anthropophagous.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!
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Their pagan and, we regret to say, anthropophagous habits laid them open to a certain amount of criticism.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. Various
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The same remark applies to the Russian Ballet; the Yugo-Slav handbell-ringers; the vegetarian Indian-club swingers from the Karakoram Himalayas; the polyphonic gong-players from North Borneo; the synthetic quarter-tone quartette from San Domingo; the anthropophagous back-chat comedians from the Solomon Islands; not to mention a host of other interesting companies, troupes, corroborees and pow-wows which are now in our midst for the purpose of cementing the confraternity of nations.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Various
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Antilles; but on the mainland, where not under strict control, all the forest tribes of Indians are more or less anthropophagous.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Jamaica and Puerto Rico, immediate neighbors of the Caribs, were almost as fierce as the latter, and probably as anthropophagous.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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