English

Adjective

anthropophagistic ‎(comparative more anthropophagistic, superlative most anthropophagistic)

1. (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 1, “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.

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