anthropomorphous
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Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
Gratiolet, Prof., on the anthropomorphous apes; on the evolution of the anthropomorphous apes; on the difference in the development of the brains of apes and of man.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)
All the expressions which had attached a living force to natural objects would remain as the description of personal and anthropomorphous gods.
