[f. Gr. ἀνθρωποφυ-ής of man’s nature (f. ἄνθρωπος man + φυ-ή nature) + -ISM.] The ascription of a human nature to the gods.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, II. 175. At the time of Homer, anthropophuism had obtruded into the sphere of deity. Ibid. (1878), Prim. Homer, 65. The principle of anthropophuism … through which they [the gods] reflect the image of a peculiar magnified humanity on a very grand scale.
