v. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωπόμορφ-ος + -IZE.]
1. trans. To render, or regard as, anthropomorphous; to attribute a human form or personality to.
1845. Ford, Hand-bk. Spain, 107. The Deity was anthropomorphised.
1847. Blackw. Mag., LXI. 440/1. We spiritualise the material universe, and afterwards, by an incongruous consistency, anthropomorphise spirit.
2. absol.
1858. Lewes, Sea-side Studies, 365. Our tendency to anthropomorphise … causes us to interpret the actions of animals according to the analogy of human nature.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, I. (1873), 86. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing in this way.
