a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a cannibal.
1837. Dickens, Pickw. (1842), I. 413. The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller. Ibid. (1844), Mart. Chuz., xxxvii. Preparers of cannibalic pastry.
1886. Blackie, What does Hist. Teach? 107. That she [Anne Askew] should be treated in this worse than cannibalic style in the name of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
