单词 | anthropophagist |
释义 | anthropophagistn. Now rare. A person who eats human flesh, a cannibal; = anthropophagus n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > cannibalism > cannibal cannibal1541 anthropophagusa1544 anthropophagite1555 Carib1555 men-eater1599 man-eater1600 anthropophaginian1602 Lestrigon1605 anthropophagist1650 anthropophagizer1854 Lestrigoniana1887 1650 Musgrave Muzled 8 As if they had sate down to Atreus Feast, and risen from the Table Anthropophagists. 1791 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis VI. 272 The doctrine of the metempsychosis makes me scrupulous of eating meat; for when I regale on the flesh of this ox, I am perhaps an anthropophagist. 1827 Q. Oriental Mag. 8 160 They imagine, that we revel in blood and bruises; in short, that we are but one step from being regular anthropophagists. 1881 Nature No. 625. 599 That during the Bronze period the inhabitants of this part were Anthropophagists. 1975 B. Felton & M. Fowler Best, Worst & Most Unusual 224 Most anthropophagists agree that selecting the right brand and cut is very important. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1650 |
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