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The ascription of human 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.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

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

Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

ere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]

itle; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.