Meanings
- not comparableEngaging in, involving, or related to the eating of children.
The description of the preparation of the children for the play's pedophagic banquet recalls the Messenger's description in Seneca's Thyestes, […]
1997, A. J. Boyle, Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition, Routledge, published 1997, →ISBN2 more examples
However, Annable represents on his part the masculine aspect of the uroboros, the pedophagic father of archetypal mythology, the Moloch figure, and is thus equally as dangerous and destructive as his female counterpart.
1987, Barbara A. Miliaras, Pillar of Flame: The Mythological Foundations of D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Philosophy, Peter Lang, published 1987, →ISBN, page 82I have already discussed the key visionary scene in Metropolis, Freder's vision in which he sees the central machine of the city transform itself into a demon, the cannibalistic, pedophagic god, Moloch.
2000, Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, British Film Institute, published 2000, →ISBN, page 55
Origin
From pedo- (“child”) + -phagic.
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