[n. of agent f. ANTHROPOMORPHIZE: see -IST.] One who uses anthropomorphism, or attributes a human personality to God, abstract ideas, other animals, etc.
a. 1617. Bayne, Ephes. (1866), 33. For to measure God by our scantling … is fitter for doating anthropomorphists than grave divines.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 98. The Greeks were essentially anthropomorphists.
1878. Emerson, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 414. What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape.
