anthropophuistic, a.
(ænˌθrəʊpəʊfjuːˈɪstɪk)
[f. prec.: see -istic.]
Of or according to anthropophuism; a. ascribing a human nature to the gods; b. having such a nature ascribed.
| 1858 Gladstone Homer I. 561 They [Persians] did not consider..that the Gods were anthropophuistic. Ibid. II. 51 That introduction of the female principle into the sphere of deity, which the Greeks seem to have adopted after their anthropophuistic manner. |