anthropophagus

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I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable.

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  1. noun A person who eats human flesh; a cannibal.

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  • I have been worried to know whether this was owing to some innate depravity of disposition on my part, some malignant torturing instinct, which, under different circumstances, might have made a Fijian anthropophagus of me, or to some law of thought for which I was not answerable. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
 

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  1. Latin anthrōpophagus, from Greek anthrōpophagos, man-eating : anthrōpo-, anthropo- + -phagos, -phagous.

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος, man-eating, from ἂνθρωπος, man, + φαγεῖν, eat.
 

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