a. rare. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωποφάγ-ος (see prec.) + -IC.] Of or connected with anthropophagy; cannibal.
1835. York Herald, etc., 24 Oct., 2/5. The last [‘The King of the Cannibal Islands’] was a very befitting finale to the ‘sweet voices’ of these ‘zealous defenders of Church and State,’ and his Anthropophagic Majesty might improve the war yell of his tribe by an importation from these classic abodes.
1852. T. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. vi. 200. The warlike anthropophagic Carib.
