anthropophaginian

Definitions

One who eats human flesh.

humorous, rare

Examples

“Host⟳: […] go, knock⟳ / and call⟳: hee’l speake like⟳ an Anthropophaginian vnto / thee: Knocke I say⟳.”

“The awful distich put⟳ into the mouth of the Jette or Ettin, the principal agent in this romance, 'Snouk but, snouk ben, I find⟳ the smell⟳ of earthly men,” is scarcely inferior to the 'fee faw fum' of the keen-scented anthropophaginian of the other.”

“Packer is not yet hung, up to the time of this writing, but his case is hanging in the Supreme Court of this State, where it is likely to bide the law's delay⟳ for a long time yet, while Packer, the great American anthropophaginian, suffers the pangs of dread uncertainty in durance vile.”

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