a. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωπόμορφ ος (see ANTHROPOMORPHOUS) + -IC.] Of the nature of anthropomorphism.
a. Treating the Deity as anthropomorphous, or as having a human form and character.
1827. Hare, Guesses, I. (1873), 67. Their anthropomorphic Religion … reacted powerfully upon them.
1851. Westcott, Introd. Gosp., i. (ed. 5), 80. The anthropomorphic language of the Pentateuch.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 68. The anthropomorphic tracings are deepest upon the Zeus of Homer.
b. Attributing a human personality to anything impersonal or irrational.
1858. Lewes, Sea-side Studies, 255. As we are just now looking with scientific seriousness at our animals, we will discard all anthropomorphic interpretations, such as point to ‘alarm.’
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, xxi. 294. The anthropomorphic abstractions which we call nations.
