Found 2 hits - Term: zoomorphism, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
zoomorphism \zo`omor"phism\, n.
1. the transformation of men into beasts. r. --smart.
1913 webster
2. the quality of representing or using animal forms; as,
zoomorphism in ornament.
1913 webster
3. the representation of god, or of gods, in the form, or
with the attributes, of the lower animals.
1913 webster
to avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into
the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of
zoomorphism. --mivart.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
zoomorphism
n : the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god
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