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theophagous, a.|θiːˈɒfəgəs|
[f. theo- + -phagous.]
Of, pertaining to, or marked by theophagy; God-eating. So theˈophagy |-dʒɪ|, (a) the eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); (b) Anthrop., the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they ingest a deity with the consecrated food. theˈophagite |-dʒaɪt|, (nonce-wd.) a God-eater (in quot. attrib.).
1805Monthly Mag. XX. 35 The theophagite cannibalism of the communion-rite. 1875Swinburne Lett. (1960) III. 49 Would the exalted privilege of theophagy be conceded to a believer in the identity of those two Beings? 1880― in Fortn. Rev. June 762 In the bosom of a deicidal and theophagous Christianity. Ibid., A creed..based on deicide and sustained on theophagy. 1903G. B. Shaw Revolutionist's Handbk. viii, in Man & Superman 209 We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians. 1907Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 684 The origin of the rites of Theophagy or Communion. 1912Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 136/1 The chief among the reasons given for the correlated rite of theophagy. Ibid. 137/1 A more detailed account supplies a valuable type of such theophagous ceremonies. 1937Jrnl. Theol. Stud. XXXVIII. 97 Notable also is the demonstration how slight evidence we have, not only that any one ever associated theophagy with the Dionysiac omophagy, but even that any one in the centuries with which we are concerned ever celebrated an omophagy at all. 1956C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. (1957) 533/2 Theophagy, the practice of ingesting the god. It probably stemmed from the ancient habit of eating the sacred animal to secure blessing, grace, and identity with the deity. |