a. [f. THEO- + -PHAGOUS.] God-eating. So Theophagy, the eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); Theophagite, a God-eater (in quot. attrib.). All nonce-wds. (mostly dyslogistic).
1805. Monthly Mag., XX. 35. The theophagite cannibalism of the communion-rite.
1880. Swinburne, in Fortn. Rev., June, 762. In the bosom of a deicidal and theophagous Christianity. Ibid. A creed … based on deicide and sustained on theophagy.
1907. Hibbert Jrnl., April, 684. The origin of the rites of Theophagy or Communion.
