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anthropogenist (an-thro-poj'r-nist), H. [< OH- anthropolite (an-throp'o-lit), . [= F. an thro- 
tkropopeny + -fetj An adherent of modern polithe, < Gr. avdpuirof, inan, + //flbf, a stone.] 
biologk-al doctrines ivspiM-ting anthropogeny. A petrifaction of the human body or skeleton, 
anthropomorphous 
The treatment he has received either frnm his fellow- 
beings or from a power which he is prone tu think of mi- 
thropomorpkicaUy. 11. >';/.-,, Prin. of Psychol., 518. 
anthropogeny (an -thro -poj'e-ni), n." "[As" if or "of parts of the body, produced by the in- anthropomorphism (an*thro-po-m6r'fizm), . 
< Gr. *avUpu-o-; iveia, < avBpunrtryevfc, bora of man, crusting action of calcareous waters, and theiv- 
man, + yfvoc, birth.] 1. Same as fore not a true fossil. 
[As iiiilliriipnni<iri>hiii(.t + -ism'.] ' 1. The ascrip- 
tion of human attributes to supernatural or 
(mtkropogettesis.Z. The sum of human know- anthropolithic (an"thro-po-lith'ik), a. Of or divine beings; in tltcoL, the conception or rep- 
ledge concerning the development of man. pertaining to anthropol'ites ; characterized by resentation of God with human qualities and 
Also called anihropoffoitg. the presence of petrified human remains. .,<*-; . ; i 1 
In this mighty "war of culture," affecting as it does This much, however, is certain that the true develop- 
the whole history of the World, and in which we may well ment of human culture dates only from the Antln-n,,,,. 
deem it an honour to take part, nu better ally than Anlhm- lithii- Kpoch. llm-rltrl F.vid of Man (trans ) II 1C, 
pogeny can, it seems tome, lie brought to the assistance of -,_4.-u_, __i _ / n. - 
struggling truth. anthropologlC (an'thro-po-loj 'ik), o. [< an- 
Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), Pref., p. xxiii. thnipology + -ic; =F. aiitlim/iiiloi/ii/iif.] Of or 
anthropoglot (an'thro-po-glot), . [< Gr. pertaining to anthropology; of the nature of 
avSpairoy/.uT-of, nrdpov^'Auaaof, having man's anthropology, 
tongue, < avOpuxof, man, + y/.uaaa = Attic y/urro, 
the tongue: see gloss, glo ttis.] An animal which ., , 
has a tongue resembling that of man, as the anthropological (an"thro-po-loj i-kal), a. Per- 
affections, or in a human shape. Anthropomor- 
phism is founded in man's inability to conceive beings 
aliuM- himself otherwise than in his own likeness. It de- 
termines the growth and form of all human religions, from 
the lowest up to the highest : as where the Scriptures speak 
of the eye, the ear, and the hand of God, of his seeing and 
hearing, of his remembering and forgetting, of his making 
man in his own image, etc. 
Such subtle anthropologic wisdom as the ode on the In- 
timations of Immortality. Kinysley, Misc., I. 219. 
taining or relating to anthropology!' or the nat- ture8 at "ice- 
tkropotoffy + -int.] One who studies or is versed 
in anthropology. 
inthropology (an-thro-pol'o-ji), n. [= P. - 
thropologie, < Gr. as if *av6i>uKofa>yla, a speakin 
of man, < avOpunoUyof, speaking of man, < avdpo 
anthropogony (an-thro-pog'6-ni), . [< Gr ural history of man: as, anthropological facts; 
avOpavot'ovia, the begetting of men, the origin of o Aiithropoloaical Society, 
men, < avdpunof, man, 4- -yovoc, < / *>ev, produce, anthropologist (an-thro-pol'o-jist), . [< nn- 
Cf. theogony.] 1. Same as unthropogenesis. 
The word anthropogony, used first by Josephus, means 
. . . only " the generation of man." 
HimM. Evol. of Man (trans.), II. 459. 
2. Same as anthropogeny, 2. 
anthropography (an-thro-pog'ra-fi), . [= P. 
antkropographia, < Gr. diYfyxjTroc 4- -ypatyia, < ypa- 
ijiciv, write, describe. Cf. Gr. av6puiroypd<p<x;, a 
painter of men, a portrait-painter.] A descrip- 
tion of man or of the human race; more par- 
ticularly, that branch of anthropology which 
treats of the actual distribution of the varieties 
of the human race, as distinguished by physical 
character, institutions, and customs, including 
of man, < av6p<jTroMyo, speaking of man, < avfipt,*- 
JTOC, man, + teyetv, speak: see -ology.] 1. The 
science of man or of mankind, it includes the 
study of man's agreement with and divergence from other 
customs, etc.; and of the general physical and mental 
development of the human race. Anthropology thus in- 
for their object. By some it has been divided into -(a) 
zoological anthnpoloyy, which investigates man's relations 
to the brute creation ; (6) descriptive anthropology, OTetknol- 
!W, which describes the divisions and groups of mankind ; 
(r) general anthrojioloo-tt, or, as M. Broca calls it, "the biol- 
ogy of the human race." As a department of systematic 
Although Milton was undoubted; a high Arian in his 
mature life, he does, in the necessity of poetry, give a 
greater objectivity to the Father and the Son than he 
would havejustifled in argument. He was wise in adopt- 
ing the strong nntliropomorphunii of the Hebrew Scrlp- 
Coleridge, Table-Talk, p. 293. 
2. The conception of animals, plants, or nature 
in general, by analogy with man: commonly 
implying an unscientific use of such analogy. 
Descartes . . . deserted the old moderate view which 
affirmed that between the highest psychical powers of man 
and brutes there is a certain natural likeness and analogy, 
and gave rise to the notion that animals are nothing but 
wonderfully complex machines an error naturally re- 
sulting in the opposite one now so prevalent the error, 
namely, that there is a substantial identity between the 
finite soul and the souf of man biological anthropomor- 
phism. Mivart. 
anthropomorphist (authro-po-m6r'fist), . 
[As mmuropomorpkout + -int.] One who attrib- 
utes human form or qualities to beings other 
speech invests the Deity with human form and 
attributes ; an anthropomorphite. 
What anthropoinorphMs we are in this, that we cannot 
let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human 
shape! Emerson, \. A. Rev., CXXVI. 414. 
and 
sembling man, or man-like, as one of the higher 
language. See ethnography. 
anthropoid (an'thro-poid), a. and . [< Gr. 
avOpuvoeidt/c,, like a man, in human shape, < 
avdpuxor, a man, 4- tMoc, form, shape.] I. a. 1. theology, anthropology deals with questions relating to anthropomorphite (an'thro-po-mdr'fit), n. 
Of or pertaining to the superfamily Anthro- \ gm nature original condition and fall of man, and _ [< LL. anthropomorphita!, pl.,< Gr. *Mp, 
" pi., heretics who believed in a God 
authropomor- 
~ne who 
in hu- 
divination. Cf. necromanevX Divination bv man form ' with human attributes and passions ; 
an anthropomorphist; specifically, one of an 
ancient religious sect who held such views. See 
Aitidian. 
Simiida?, as restricted to include only the go- 
rilla, chimpanzee, oraug, and gibbon, these be- 
ing commonly known as the anthropoid apes. 
The gorilla is now generally regarded as the most human 
of the anthropoid apes. //. A. Xiflmlxnn. 
II. . An anthropoid animal; one of the ***'. 
-ter), n. [<. an- 
thropometry. Cf. geometer.] One who studies 
or practises anthropometry. 
As he stands liefore us now, man is an animal . . . ex- 
hibiting in his adult form those characteristics which en- 
gage the attention of the anatomist, the physiologist, and 
Smithso 
higher monkeys ; an ape. 
Chronologically this [called by French archroologists the 
Epoch of Robenhausen] is regarded as the first epoch of 
the appearance of man on the globe, the previous imple- 
ment-using animals being probably anthropoid*. 
Science, IV. 438. 
anthropoidal (an-thro-poi'dal), a. Of anthro- 
poid 
t, the phys 
nian Rep., 
1881, p. 499. 
Though few profess themselves anthnpomorphiten, yet 
we may flnd many amongst the ignorant of that opinion. 
Lorkf. 
= Byn. A nthropomurphUf, Anthropomorphigt . The for- 
mer is properly one who attributes a human body to God, 
the latter one who attributes to him human passions. 
II. a. Anthropomorphitic. 
anthropometric (an " thro - po - met ' rik), a. [< 
anthropometry + -ic.] Pertaining or relating .-.-- 
to the proportions of the human body ; relating antnropomorpnitic, anthropomorphltical 
to anthropometry. ' (n*thro-po-m6r-fit'ik, -i-kal), a. [<LL. anthro- 
pomorphiticvs, < anthropomorphito!, anthropo- 
morphites: see anthropomorpliite.] Pertaining 
to or characterized by anthropomorphism, 
anthropomor phitism (an * thro - po - m6r ' fi - 
tizm), n. [< anthropomorphite 4- -ism.] The 
anthropometrically (an'thro-po-met'ri-kal-i), doctrines of anthropomorphites ; anthropomor- 
adv. In an authropometric manner; bv means 
Over a hundred anthropometric observations were taken 
on individuals of all ages and both sexes. Science, III. 168. 
i-met'ri-kal) 
metric. 
of anthropometry. 
anthropomorphize (an'thro-po-mor'fiz), v. t. ; 
see anthropoid.] 
orders, the other 
the order Primates has been divided. The group 
f ^.MffiBA^tSSlS?^ anthJopome^lan-thro-pom'e-tri), . [= F. I**, and pp. anthropomorphized, ppr. anthropo- 
ntorphtxing. [As anthropomorphotiy + -ize.] To 
invest with human qualities. 
The Pelasgian Zeus became the head of the new Olym- 
its posterior lobe much developed and wholly or mostly anthropometrie, < Gr. avfffumof, man, 4- -/jerpia. < 
(TOW, measure.] The measurement of the 
uman body; the department of the science of 
covering the cerebellum ; a lacrymal foramen within the 
orbit ; an orbit completed by suture of the malar and ali- 
sphenoid bones ; ears rounded, with a distinct lobule; and, 
in the female, strictly pectoral teats, undivided uterusi anthropology which relates to the proportions I" 18 ' and a completely anthropomorphized god. 
and an imperforate clitoris. Also written Anthmpida. 
Anthropoides (an-thro-poi'dez), w. [NL., < Gr. 
' 
of the human body, either in individuals or in 
tribes and races. 
.;, like a man: see anthropoid.] 1. Anthropomorpha (an'thro-po-mor'fa), . pi. 
In ornith., a genus of cranes, of the family [NL., neut. pi. of anthropomorplius : see aiithro- 
trrmda;, based by Vieillot in 1816 upon the Nu- pomorphous.] A group of anthropoid apes, the 
midian crane or demoiselle, A. rirgo. It is some- 
times restricted to this species ; sometimes extended to 
the Stanley crane, *4. (Tetrapteryx) paradtecuH or Stanley- 
anus; and sometimes made to cover the crown-cranes ' 
the genus Balearica (which see). The synonyms of A 
The Nation, Sept. 23, 1869, p. 255. 
Even with Homer the age of Creation has ceased, the 
age of criticism and scepticism has begun. At any rate, 
the gods have strayed far away from the region to which 
by nature they Irelong. They have become anthropomor- 
phized. Keary, Prim. Belief, p. 155. 
simians, equivalent to the family Simiida. See anthropomorphology (an"thro-po-mor-fol'- 
ii- a ^i. -ji)? " [< Or. dv6puTr6uop<t>o, of human fonn 
*, anthropomorphic (an"thro-po-m6r'fik),. [As ( 8ee , anthropomorphous), 
n- anthropomorphous + -ic.] 1. Relating ' 
thropoides proper are": Otus (Ba'rrere, 1745), Scops (Moeii- characterized by anthropomorphism : as, an- 
ring, 1762), ISiljia (Leach, about 1818), and Philorchrmon " 
(Gloger, 1842). 
2. [Used as a plural.] In zool., a name given by 
Haeckel to the anthropoid apes: synonymous 
with Anthropoidfti. 
anthropolatry (au-thro-pol'a-tri), . [= P. 
(tnthropoldtrie, ( Gr. avOptimo'/jiTpeia, man-wor- 
ship, < avffpairof, man, 4- Aarpeia, worship, ser- 
vice: see latria. Cf. idolatry.] The worship of 2. . Resembling man ; approaching man in type ; 
man; the paying of divine honors to a human anthropoid: as, anthropomorphic apes. 
being. It was'charged by the early Christians upon the anthropomorphical (an'thro-po-mor'fi-kal), 
pagans, and by them, in return, charged upon the Chris- a. Of anthropomorphic character or tendency, 
tians, because of their worship of Christ. The word, how- "~ 
ever, is better known from its employment by the Apolli- 
uarians against the orthodox Christians of the fourth and 
fifth centuries, who held the doctrine of the perfect hu- 
4- -'Aoyia, < 
speak: see -ology.] The use of anthropomor- 
. - , ^- . pnie language. N. E. D. 
thropomorphic conceptions of Deity. anthropomorphosis (an"thro- P o-m6r-f6'sis or 
We everywhere see fading away the anthropomorphic -mor'fo-sis), n. ; pi. anthrop'omorphoses (-sez). 
conception of the Unknown & f< 3 j, ^ ^ l<;> < ^fatoZ, 
The curiously a,Uhropo,, u ,rphic idea of stones being bus- lothe m human torm > < M^Pf, i human 
bands and wives, and even having children, is familiar to torm : see an thropomorpltous.] Transformation 
the Fijians as it is to the Peruvians and the Lapp*. into human shape. Baring-Gonld. 
'. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 149. anthropomorphotheist (an"thro-po-m6r-fo- 
the'ist), n. [< Gr. avQpoxofioptyos, of human 
form, T Bear, God, 4- -ist: see anthropomorphous 
and theist.] One who conceives God as haying 
human attributes. Coues, Buddhist Catechism, 
p. 56. 
[Rare.] 
man nature of Christ. 
anthropomorphically (an"thro-po-mor'fi- anthropomorphous (an*thro-po-m6r'fus), a. 
kal-i), adv.^ In an anthropomorphic' manner; [< NL. anthropomiirplius, < Gr. aityxjjro>op0c?, of 
human form, < drf/jurroc, man, + fiop^t/, form.] 
in or as of the human form. 
