anthropomorphize (an thro pom or fiz)

t.; pret. and pp. anthropomorphized, ppr. anthropo morph i zing. [As anthropomorph ous + -ize.] To invest with human qualities. The Pelasgian Zeus became the head of the new Olympus, and a completely anthropomorphized god. The Nation , Sept. 23, 1869, p. 255. Even with Homer the age of Creation has ceased, the age of criticism and scepticism has begun. At any rate, the gods have strayed far away from the region to which by nature they belong. They have become anthropomorphized. Keary, Prim. Belief, p. 155. - anthropomorph ology (an" thrō - pō-môr-fol'ō-ji), n. [ anthropomorphosis (anthro-po-môr-fo's is or -môr'fo-sis), n.; pl. anthropomorph oses (-sēz). [