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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.

One who ascribes human feelings to deity.

Good against mephitic or deletplwious gases. -- n.

Good against the rickets.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

The science of architecture.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

The science of architecture.

An architect. [Obs.] North.

A female architect.

Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.

, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

On this side of. [Obs.] Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.