anthropopathism (anthropopathizm)

[ Like the Chaldee paraphrasts, he [Abu Said] resolves an thro pop at hi sms , employs euphemisms, and makes several minor alterations. T. H. Horne, Introd. to Study of Holy Scriptures, II. 79. The Jupiter of Homer is to be regarded.. as the receptacle and butt of the principal parts of such earthly, sensual, and appetitive elements as, at the time of Homer, anthropophuism had obtruded into the sphere of deity. Gladstone, Studies in Homer, II. 174. an thro pop huis tic (an-thrō-pof-u-is'tik), a . [ As anthropophuism + -ist-ic.] Relating to or characterized by anthropophuism. That introduction of the female principle into the sphere of deity, which the Greeks seem to have adopted, after their an thro pop huis tic manner, with a view to the family order among the Immortals. Gladstone, Studies in Homer, II. 51.