a. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωπόμορφ-ος of human form (f. ἄνθρωπο-ς man + μορφή form) + -OUS.]
1. Of human form, having the form of a man.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., Naturalists give instances of Anthropomorphous plants, Anthropomorphous minerals, &c.
1819. Lawrence, Lect. Man, i. (1840), 88. Their [monkeys’] forms are so much like the human, as to have procured for them the epithet anthropo-morphous.
1875. Lubbock, Orig. Civil., vii. 345. The deities in this state are anthropomorphous.
2. = ANTHROPOMORPHIC.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, II. 148. Everything, again, that is connected with the genesis of the Olympian system, properly so called, is made to conform to anthropomorphous ideas.
