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Webster 1913 Edition
Zoomorphism
Zoˊo-mor′phism
,Noun.
1.
The transformation of men into beasts.
[R.]
Smart.
2.
The quality of representing or using animal forms;
as,
. zoomorphism
in ornament3.
The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals.
To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of
zoomorphism
. Mivart.