a. rare–1. [f. Gr. ἀνθρωπουργ-ός man-making (but taken, on analogy of θεουργός, as = operating as man) + -IC.] prop. Man-making; but also used as: ‘Wrought or acted upon by man.’
1838. Burton, in Bentham’s Wks., I. Introd. 16. Anthropurgic Somatology … the science of bodies so far as man, by his knowledge of the convertible powers of nature, is able to operate upon them.
