anthropophagy









anthropophagy


noun

  1. the eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
n.

“cannibalism,” 1630s, from French anthropophagie, from Greek anthropophagia “an eating of men,” from anthropophagos “man-eating; a man-eater,” from anthropo- + stem of phagein “to eat” (see -phagous). Related: Anthropophagic; anthropophagism.

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