anthropophagi

American  

[an-thruh-pof-uh-jahy, -gahy] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒf əˌdʒaɪ, -ˌgaɪ /

plural noun

singular

anthropophagus

1. eaters of human flesh; cannibals.

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anthropophagi British  

/ ˌænθrəˈpɒfəˌɡaɪ /

plural noun

1. cannibals

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Etymology

Origin of anthropophagi

1545–55; < Latin, plural of anthrōpophagus cannibal < Greek anthrōpophágos man-eating. See anthropo-, -phage, -phagous

Example Sentences

The book mostly takes place in and around the Vorrh, an uncharted and unknowable forest in Africa filled with John of Mandeville’s anthropophagi and other unknown monsters.

From Slate

“This was deemed justifiable in those days even by the most scrupulous divines, from the belief that the Caribs were anthropophagi, or man-eaters; fortunately the opinion of mankind in this more enlightened age makes but little difference in atrocity between the cannibal and the kidnapper.”

From Project Gutenberg

Remarks upon the aboriginal Americans — Suppositions of various authors — Caribs — Arrowawks — Ferocity of the Carib — Complexion — Dress — Ornaments — Dreadful revenge — Wars-Chiefs — Severities practised — Feasts — Remarks upon paganism — Anthropophagi — A traveller’s tale — The Carib’s opinion of death — Religious tenets — Altars — The burning Carib.

From Project Gutenberg

Remarks upon the aboriginal Americans — Suppositions of various authors — Caribs — Arrowawks — Ferocity of the Carib — Complexion — Dress — Ornaments — Dreadful revenge — Wars-Chiefs — Severities practised — Feasts — Remarks upon paganism — Anthropophagi — A traveller’s tale — The Carib’s opinion of death — Religious tenets — Altars — The burning Carib ERRATA.

From Project Gutenberg

He also makes Othello tell the gentle Desdemona "of most disastrous chances, and of the cannibals that each other eat; the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders."

From Project Gutenberg