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Anthropophagi

Anthropophagi \An`thro*poph"a*gi\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ? eating men; ? man + + ? to eat.] Man eaters; cannibals.
--Shak.

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anthropophagi

n. (plural of anthropophagus English)

Usage examples of "anthropophagi".

The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.

Mythical Anthropophagi The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary.

Here Admiral John Ruy Dias Solis, while exploring the shores of this continent by command of King Ferdinand the Catholic, was, with some of his companions, eaten by the Anthropophagi, whom the Indians call cannibals.

And if we fell among anthropophagi, would not our love of approbation make us long to be as succulent as young pigs?

She had stopped talking about the old Cannes days and had sat lingering in rapt silence as the White Hunter told of antres vast and deserts idle and of the cannibals that each other eat, the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.

I like to think that he was happy there, meditating his fill, resisting some wonderful temptations and communing betimes with passing Anthropophagi, Cynocephali, Nisnas, Blemmyes and Sciapods.

At Tana they met anthropophagi, who fortunately would not eat foreigners, whom they found revolting, but only their own children.