a. [f. eccl. Gr. θεάνθρωπος, THEANTHROPOS + -IC.] Pertaining, relating to, or having the nature of both God and man; at once divine and human.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., I. lxxviii. The Theanthropick Word, That Mystick Glasse of Revelations.
1864. in Webster.
1868. Gladstone, Glean. (1879), III. 55. The theanthropic idea, the idea of God made man without ceasing to be God, was … familiar … to the old mythology. Ibid. (1879), in 19th Cent., Oct., 765. An anthropomorphic or theanthropic system of marvellous imaginative splendour.
1882. Cave & Banks, trans. Dorner’s Chr. Doctr., 197. An image of Christ … which is actually and truly human and Divine at once, that is theanthropic.
So Theanthropical a. rare [see -ICAL].
1846. Worcester cites Bib. Rep.
