Anthropometry

[Gr. anthropos, man, and me tron, a measure.] The measurement of the human body. Anthropomorph i tes, n. pl. ( Eccl. Hist.) The adherents of Audius, or Audaus, a teacher in Syria, who died about A. D. 370. They were excommunicated by the orthodox church, rather on account of their persevering in the old way of celebrating Easter, at the same time with the Jewish Pa over, their deviation from the usual penances, and their zeal against unworthy priests, than on account of their representation of God in a human shape. Toward the close of the 4th century they still existed, as schismatics of severe morals, in small bodies in Syria; in the 5th century they were extinct. Anthropomorph ous, a. Resembling the human form.