anthropomorphite

English

Noun

anthropomorphite (plural anthropomorphites)

1. One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to a deity.
   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Man, considered in his first state wherein he was created: and of Paradise, the place of his habitation.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book I [Of the First Beginnings of the World and Religion: And of the Regions and Religions of Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Phænicia, and Palestina], page 11:

     The Image of God appeared in the ſoule properly, ſecondly in the bodie (not as the Anthropomorphite Heretikes, and Popiſh Image-makers imagine, but) as the inſtrunemt of the ſoule, and laſtly in the whole Perſon.

Related terms

• anthropomorphitic
• anthropomorphitism

Translations

one who ascribes human attributes to a deity

• Portuguese: antropomorfita m or f

References

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.