Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man-eater; a cannibal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cannibal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cannibal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who eats human flesh
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Are not all those sovereigns, who to gratify the vanity of the priesthood, torment and persecute their subjects, who sacrifice to their anthropophagite gods human victims, men whom superstitious zeal has converted into tygers?
The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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