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theophagy

theophagy noun: the eating or consumption of a god, typically in a sacramental context.

Noun

theophagy (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The eating or consumption of a god, typically in a sacramental context.

Origin of theophagy

From theo- + -phagy (“to feed on, to eat”); compare theophage.

Questions about theophagy

What does theophagy mean?
Theophagy means the eating or consumption of a god, typically in a sacramental context.
What part of speech is theophagy?
Theophagy is a noun.

Words near theophagy in the dictionary

  1. theophages
  2. theophagic
  3. theophagite
  4. theophagites
  5. theophagous
  6. theophagy
  7. theophania
  8. theophanic
  9. theophanically
  10. theophanies
  11. theophanism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: theophagy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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