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anthropoid, a. and n.|ˈænθrəpɔɪd, ænˈθrəʊpəʊɪd| [ad. Gr. ἀνθρωπο-ειδ-ής of human form: see -oid. Cf. mod.Fr. anthropoïde.] A. adj. a. Of human form, man-like.
a1837Owen in Penny Cycl. VII. 69/2 The highest cultivation of which the anthropoïd apes are susceptible. 1862D. Wilson Preh. Man iii. (1865) 31 The assumed anthropoid link between man and the brutes. b. Shaped like a man.
1912T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 228 It [a sarcophagus] was white marble..anthropoid but Greek-featured. Ibid. 235 Anthropoid means human ‘shaped’: the sarcophagus is like the sort of mummy-coffin that has a face carved on it. 1920Brit. Mus. Return 43 All the rectangular and anthropoid coffins..have been incorporated. c. Of a human being: of ape-like form or character.
1930English Jrnl. XIX. 608 Mr. Mencken watched with alert eyes the simian antics of the anthropoid rabble at the Dayton farce. 1939C. K. Allen Law in the Making (ed. 3) 56 Some incalculably remote age when the life of anthropoid men was ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. B. n. a. A being that is human in form only. b. An anthropoid ape.
1832Q. Rev. XLVIII. 96 A race of Anthropoids,—neither Raleigh nor Sidney would have called them Men—has wormed itself into the dominion of the letter-press—not the literature of England. 1863Huxley Man's Place in Nat. i. 23 There are four distinct kinds of anthropoids..the Gibbons and the Orangs..the Chimpanzees and the Gorilla. |