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One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

to anthropomorphism. Kitto.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

The application to God of terms descriptive of human beings.

Transformation into the form of a human being.

Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.

The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

Of or pertaining to anthropopathy. [R.] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

man feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

One who ascribes human feelings to deity.

Man eaters; cannibals. Shak.

Relating to cannibalism or anthropophagy.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

A cannibal. W. Taylor.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.