a. and sb. [ad. Gr. ἀνθρωπο-ειδ-ής of human form: see -OID. Cf. mod.Fr. anthropoïde.]
A. adj. Of human form, man-like.
a. 1837. Owen, in Penny Cycl., VII. 69/2. The highest cultivation of which the anthropoïd apes are susceptible.
1862. D. Wilson, Preh. Man, iii. (1865), 31. The assumed anthropoid link between man and the brutes.
B. sb. a. A being that is human in form only. b. An anthropoid ape.
1832. Q. Rev., XLVIII. 96–7. A race of Anthropoids—neither Raleigh nor either Sidney would have called them Men—has wormed itself into the dominion of the letter-press—not the literature of England.
1863. Huxley, Man’s Place in Nat., i. 23. There are four distinct kinds of anthropoids … the Gibbons and the Orangs … the Chimpanzees and the Gorilla.
