Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who eats human flesh; a cannibal.
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Examples
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Perhaps those primitive anthropophagist societies were onto something with the belief that by consuming a person, you ingest their essence, absorb their magic, and retain them as part of you in body as well as memory.
My Skin, My Soul, Child Of My Loins kittenpie 2006
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Perhaps those primitive anthropophagist societies were onto something with the belief that by consuming a person, you ingest their essence, absorb their magic, and retain them as part of you in body as well as memory.
Archive 2006-08-01 kittenpie 2006
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Voodoo priest and, it is said, an anthropophagist.
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