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7. Anthrenus pubefcens: thor-ax and lhells grey, pubef- 
cent. Inhabits Germany. 
8. Anthrenus hirtus : black ; thorax and fhells pubef- 
cent. Inhabits Germany. 
9. Anthrenus glaber: fmooth, black ; lhells, legs, and 
antennae, brown. Inhabits Berlin. 
10. Anthrenus vagus: cinereous; fhells with three 
blackobfolete bands. Inhabits Sweden; is perhaps not of 
this genus. 
11. Anthrenus fufcus-. brown, clothed with fine yellow 
down pale at the tip. Inhabits Europe. 
12. Anthrenus ferraticornis: black, fpotted with white; 
antennas yellow, the club elongated ferrate. Head cine¬ 
reous ; fhells black varied with white, and rufous at the 
bale, three white fpots in the middle, and two-waved 
white ftreaks on the tip. Inhabits the ifland of Santa Cruz. 
13. Anthrenus denticornis; black; thorax yellowifli at 
the edge ; lhells fpotted with white ; antenna; yellow, the 
club elongated, ferrate. Head black; fhells black fpeckled 
with white; body black ; legs yellowilh. Inhabits the 
ifland of Santa Cruz. 
ANTHRIS'CUS, f. in botany. See Ch^erophyllum 
and Scandix. 
ANTHROPOGLOT'TUS, f. among zoologifts, an ap¬ 
pellation given to fuch animals as have tongues refem- 
bling that of mankind, particularly to the parrot kind. 
ANTHROPOG'RAPHY,/ [from the Greek ret, 
a man, and y^atp’o, defeription.] The anatomical delcrip- 
tion of the human body. 
ANTHROPOLA'TRftE, in churcli-hiflory, an appella¬ 
tion given to the Neftorians, on account of their worfhip- 
ping Chriffc, notwithllanding that they believed him to be 
a mere man. 
ANTHROPOLA'TRIA, f. The aft of paying divine 
honours to man; fuppofed to be the molt ancient kind of 
idolatry. 
ANTHROPOLI'THUS, f. in mineralogy, petrifactions 
of the human body. See Mineralogy. 
ANTHROPOL'OGY,/. [from apSgwwo?, man, and 
Gr. to difeourfe.] The doctrine of anatomy; the doftrine 
of the form and'ltrufture of the body of man. Among 
divines, it denotes that manner of expreffion by which 
the infpired writers attribute human parts and pallions 
to God. 
ANTHROPOM'ANCY,/'. A fpecies of divination per¬ 
formed by infpefting the entrails of a human creature. 
ANTHROPOMOR'PIIA,yi A term formerly given to 
the primates, or that clafs of animals which have the 
greatelt refemblance to the human kind. 
ANTHROPOMOR'PHISM,/.among ecclefiaftical wri¬ 
ters, denotes the hereby or error of the Anthropomorphiles. 
ANTHROPOMOR'PHITES,yi [anthropomorphites, Lat. 
*i:9pi7rop.ofipiT^i, Gr. of a> 0 pw tto;, a man, and fAoptpr,, form.] 
A left of ancient heretics, who, taking every thing fpoken 
of God in Scripture in a literal fenle, particularly that 
paffage of Geneiis, in which it is faid, God made man after 
his own image, maintained that God had a human fhape. 
They are likewife called Audeans,from Audens their leader. 
.—Chriftians as well as Turks have had whole lefts contend¬ 
ing that the Deity was corporeal and of human fhape ; 
though few profefs themfelves anthropomorphites, yet we may 
find many amonglf the ignorant of that opinion. Locke. 
ANTHROPOMORTKOUS, adj. Something that bears 
the figure or refemblance of a man. Naturalifls give in- 
itances of anthropomorphous plants, anthropomorphous 
minerals, &c. Thefe come under the clafs of lufus nature. 
ANTHROPOP'ATHY, f. [cc^jtto ?, man, and waGo,-, 
. Gr. paflion.] The fenfibility of man; the paffions of man. 
ANTHROPOPHAGI ,]. [avQfurroc, man, and tpccya, Gr. 
to eat.] Man-eaters ; cannibals ; thole who eat human 
flefh. It is never ufed in the lingular: 
The cannibals that each other eat, 
The anthropophagi, and men whofe heads 
JDo grow beneath their Ihoulders. Shakefpcare. 
The Cyclops, the Leftrygons, and Scylla, are all repre- 
fented in Homer as anthropophagi, or man-eaters; and, 
the female phantoms, Circe and the Syrens, firft bewitch¬ 
ed with a Ihow of pleafure, and then deftroyed. This, 
like the other parts of Homer’s poetry, had a foundation 
in the manner of the times preceding his own. It w'as 
Hill, in many places, the age fpoken of by Orpheus: 
When men devour’d each other like the bealts. 
Gorging on human flelli. 
Some remains of the ufage fubfifted much longer, even 
among the mod civilized nations, in the practice of offer¬ 
ing human facrilices. 
Hiffory gives us divers inftances of perfons driven by 
excels of hunger to eat their own relations. Others com¬ 
mence anthropophagi out of revenge and hatred ; there 
are many inftances of foldiers, who in the heat of battle 
have been carried to fuch excefs of rage, as to tear their 
enemies with their teeth. The violence of love has fome- 
tirnes produced the fame effect as the excefs of hatred. 
The Tapuii eat the bodies of their friends and neareft re¬ 
lations to preferve them from worms and putrefaftion, 
thinking they do not only hereby afford them an honour¬ 
able grave, but even a new life, a kind of revivification in 
themfelves. Artemifia did fomething like this, when Ihe 
fwallowed the allies of her dead hulband Maufolus. 
According to Herodotus, among the Effedonians, when 
a man’s father died, the neighbours brought feveral bealts, 
which they killed, mixed up their flelh with that of the 
deceafed, and made a feall. Among the Maffagetae, when 
any perlon grew old, they killed him, and ate his flefh ; 
but, if he died of iicknefs, they buried him, efteeming 
him unhappy. The fame author alfo allures us, that fe¬ 
veral nations in the Indies killed all their old people and 
their fick, to feed on their flefh : he adds, that perfons in 
health were fometimes accufed of being lick, to afford a 
pretence for devouring them. According to Sextus Em¬ 
piricus, the firft laws that were made, were for the pre¬ 
vention of this barbarous praftice, winch the Greek wri¬ 
ters reprefent as univerfal before the time of Orpheus. 
Of the praftice of anthropophagy in later times, w r e have 
the teftimonies of all the Romilh miffionaries who have vi- 
fited the internal parts of Africa, and even fome parts of 
Alia. Herrera fpeaks of great markets in China, furnilh- 
ed wholly with human flelh. Marcus Paulus fpeaks of 
the like in his time, in the kingdom of Concha towards 
Quinfay, and the ifland of Zapengit; others of the great 
Java : Barbofa, of the kingdom of Siam and the ifland of 
Sumatra; others, of the illands in the gulf of Bengal, of 
the country of the Samogitians, See. 
When America was firft difeovered, this praftice was 
reprefented, by the Portuguele and Spanilh authors, to be 
almoft univerlal; it alfo appears from Dr. Hawkefworth’s 
Account of the Voyages to the South Seas, that the inha¬ 
bitants of the ifland of New Zealand facrifice and eat the 
bodies of their enemies. Mr. Marfden alfo informs us, 
that this horrid cuftom is praftifed by the Battas, a peo¬ 
ple in the ifland of Sumatra : “ They do not eat human 
flelh (fays he) as a means of fatisfying the cravings of na¬ 
ture, owing to a deficiency of other food ; nor is it fought 
after as a gluttonous delicacy ; they eat it as a fpecie^of 
ceremony ; as a mode of fhowing their deteftation of 
crimes, by an ignominious puniihment; and as an indi¬ 
cation of revenge and infult to their unfortunate enemies. 
The objects of this barbarous repalt are the prifoners ta¬ 
ken in war, and offenders convifted and condemned for 
capital crimes. Perfons of the former defeription may 
be ranfomed or exchanged, for which they often wait a 
confiderable time ; and the latter fuffer only when their 
friends cannot redeem them, by the cultomary fine of 
twenty benchangs, or eighty dollars. Thefe are tried by 
the people of the tribe where the faft was committed, but 
cannot b’e executed till their own particular raja or chief 
has been acquainted with the fentence; who, when he ac¬ 
knowledges the juftice of the intended puniihment, fends 
a cloth to cover the delinquent’s head, together with a 
large 
