a. rare. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωποπαθής having human feelings (f. ἄνθρωπο-ς man + πάθος feeling) + -IC.] Of or pertaining to anthropopathy.
[1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, 44. To make him [God] … so passionate as in effect he shold be altogether Anthropopathis.]
1847. Torrey, Neander’s Ch. Hist., II. 308. The anthropopathic form of conception, which has its truth in the fact that man was created in the image of God.
1873. H. Rogers, Superh. Orig. Bible, vii. (1875), 300. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening.
