Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
androphagus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural rare Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi.
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Examples
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Nordenski鰈d, however, considers it probable that the old tradition of man-eaters (_androphagi_), living in the north, which onginated with Herodotus, and was afterwards universally adopted in the geographical literature of the Middle Ages, reappears in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nordenski鰈d considers it probable, however, that the old tradition of man-eaters _androphagi_, living in the north, which originated with Herodotus, reappears in a Russianised form in the name “Samoyed”.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I consider it probable, however, that the old tradition of man-eaters (_androphagi_) living in the north, which originated with Herodotus, and was afterwards universally adopted in the geographical literature of the middle ages, reappears in a
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Nordenskiöld considers it probable, however, that the old tradition of man-eaters _androphagi_, living in the north, which originated with Herodotus, reappears in a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Nordenskiöld, however, considers it probable that the old tradition of man-eaters (_androphagi_), living in the north, which onginated with Herodotus, and was afterwards universally adopted in the geographical literature of the Middle Ages, reappears in Russianised form in the name _Samoyed_.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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