Definition of "anthropophagist" [anthropophagist]

• One who eats human flesh; a cannibal. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Perhaps those primitive anthropophagist societies were onto something with the belief that by consuming a person, you ingest their essence, absorb their magic, and retain them as part of you in body as well as memory."
• "Voodoo priest and, it is said, an anthropophagist."