a. [f. prec. + Gr. κέντρ ον center + -IC.] Centering in man; regarding man as the central fact of the universe, to which all surrounding facts have reference.
1862. Draper, Intell. Devel. Eur., iii. (1863), 42. In the most ancient records remaining the Hindu mind is dealing with anthropocentric conceptions, not, however, so much of the physical as of the moral kind.
1876. trans. Haeckel’s Creat., I. ii. 38. The anthropocentric error, that Man is the premeditated aim of the creation of the earth.
