a. [f. Gr. αὐτομορφ-ός self-formed, f. αὐτο- self + μορφή form. (After anthropomorphic.)] Characterized by automorphism. Automorphically adv., in automorphic manner. Automorphism, the ascription of one’s own characteristics to another.
1873. H. Spencer, Stud. Sociol., vi. 114. The conception which anyone frames of another’s mind, is inevitably more or less after the pattern of his own mind—is automorphic. Ibid., 115. He interpreted them automorphically. Ibid., 117. Our interpretations must be automorphic; and yet automorphism perpetually misleads us.
