anthropomorphite

noun

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to a deity.

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Meanings

nounanthropomorphite (plural anthropomorphites)

plural anthropomorphites

  1. One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to a deity.

    The Image of God appeared in the ſoule properly, ſecondly in the bodie (not as the Anthropomorphite Heretikes, and Popiſh Image-makers imagine, but) as the inſtrunemt of the ſoule, and laſtly in the whole Perſon.

    1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Man, considered in his first state wherein he was created: and of Paradise, the place of his habitation.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book I [Of the First Beginnings of the World and Religion: And of the Regions and Religions of Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Phænicia, and Palestina], page 11

Translations

Portuguese antropomorfita
  • antropomorfitaone who ascribes human attributes to a deity
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