单词 | anthropophagize |
释义 | anthropophagizev. rare after 17th cent. transitive. To eat (a human being), to cannibalize. Also figurative.In quot. 1869 as a participial adjective. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 34 Thou must be Anthropophagiz'd by thyne owne Mother. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Anthropophagize, One man to kill and eate anothers flesh. 1658 S. Slater Rhetorical Rapture (single sheet) They neither Day nor Night spare any pains, But to Corpulentize ravenous Wembs Anthropophagize even Royal Stems. 1869 Musical Standard 4 Dec. 276 The distinction tendered by His Serenely Anthropophagising Majesty King Coffee Afferry of the Carribean Islands. 2004 F. Merrell Complementing Lat. Amer. Borders (2006) vii. 136 This is no mean project of anthropophagizing the foreign in order to make things new. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1593 |
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