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theriomorph, n. and a.|ˈθɪərɪəʊmɔːf|
[f. therio- + -morph; cf. theriomorphic a.]
A. n.
a. A representation of an animal form in art.
1913[see anthropomorph]. 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iv. 84 Some theriomorphs are made of just those variegated stones.
b. = theromorph. Also fig.
1920H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. i. vi. 24/1 These little Theriomorphs, these ancestral mammals, developed hair. 1934A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. III. 194 But he [sc. Wells] comes to grief in the recent annals of our own Western history when he has to size up that singularly etherialized theriomorph William Ewart Gladstone.
B. adj. Having the form or characteristics of a beast.
1969H. Arendt On Violence (1970) 60 Why should we, after having ‘eliminated’ all anthropomorphisms from animal psychology (whether we actually succeeded is another matter), now try to discover ‘how ‘theriomorph’ man is’? |