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English
Adjective
anthropophagistic (comparative more anthropophagistic, superlative most anthropophagistic)
- (rare) cannibalistic
1826, John Anderson, “Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 34, page 109:This happened in New Zealand; but as they were all killed—and eaten, except him who was converted into an anthropophagistic necklace—we must ask who brought the story to London?
1870 April, “The Three Volunteers”, in The Gentleman's Journal, volume 1, page 342:Now it must not be supposed that Mrs. Jones was a lady of ghost-like or anthropophagistic habit, for it was only a story by the above title, and it was being mentally digested, when Mr. Jones spoke without lifting his eyes from the paper […]
1990, Neil Larsen, Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies:In true anthropophagistic fashion, an apparently domesticated cultural subject trumps its more powerful opponent by feigning a retreat.