[f. ANTHROPO- + Gr. -γραφία description: see -GRAPHY.]
† 1. A description of all the parts of the human body. Obs.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., 33. Anthropographic, is the description of the Number, Measure, Waight, Figure, Situation, and colour of euery diuerse thing, conteyned in the perfect body of Man.
1839. Hooper, Med. Dict., Anthropography … a description of the structure of man.
2. The branch of anthropology that treats of the geographical distribution of the races of mankind, and their local variations; ethnography.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 97. A series of anthropographies, of different epochs, would form the true basis of ethnography.
