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anthropophagistic

anthropophagistic adjective: cannibalistic.

Adjective

anthropophagistic (comparative more anthropophagistic, superlative most anthropophagistic)

  1. (rare) cannibalistic
    • 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?1826, John Anderson, “Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 34, page 109
    • 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 […]1870 April, “The Three Volunteers”, in The Gentleman's Journal, volume 1, page 342

Forms of anthropophagistic

comparativemore anthropophagistic
superlativemost anthropophagistic

Questions about anthropophagistic

What does anthropophagistic mean?
Anthropophagistic means cannibalistic.
What part of speech is anthropophagistic?
Anthropophagistic is an adjective.

Words near anthropophagistic in the dictionary

  1. anthropophagies
  2. anthropophaginian
  3. anthropophaginians
  4. anthropophagism
  5. anthropophagist
  6. anthropophagistic
  7. anthropophagists
  8. anthropophagite
  9. anthropophagites
  10. anthropophagize
  11. anthropophagized

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