Meanings
plural anthropophagi
- A man-eater; a cannibal.
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Reader, the heaven-inspired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene Highness; nay thy own amber-locked, snow-and-rose-bloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylphlike almost on air, whom thou lovest, worshippest as a divine Presence, which, indeed, symbolically taken, she is,—has descended, like thyself, from that same hair-mantled, flint-hurling Aboriginal Anthropophagus!
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The World in Clothes”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 26
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Latinanthrōpophagus
- Latinanthrōpophagus
- Englishanthropophagus
Borrowed from Latin anthrōpophagus.
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