pithecomorphic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pithecomorphic (comparative more pithecomorphic, superlative most pithecomorphic)
- (rare) Having the form or characteristics of an ape; resembling apes.
- 1866, Samuel Haughton, “Preface to Second Edition”, in Manual of Geology (Galbraight & Haughton's Scientific Manuals: Experimental and Natural Science Series), 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, pages vi–vii:
- My apology for taking the Anthropomorphic, instead of the Pithecomorphic view of nature, is that I am a Man, and not an Ape, and therefore cannot help doing so; and I admit that my idea of the Creator is perhaps as clumsy as the illustration supposes, and that I can no more imagine an abstract Creator, à la Lamarck or à la Darwin, […]
- 1977, Jerome H. Barkow, “Human ethology and intra-individual systems”, in Social Science Information, volume 16, number 2, , page 142:
- I bave been arguing that human ethology is a “big field”, not one limited to proving what many of us have suspected all along—children are really just like animals. The present conservatism of human ethology is nevertheless useful for it is providing us with a sound bank of empirical data. We have had, after all, a sufficient number of pithecomorphic analyses of human behavior.
- 1999, John Coleman Darnell, “Res Bibliographicae: Three Tombs at Thebes [Review-article of Nigel Strudwick – Helen M. Strudwick, The Tombs of Amenhotep, Khnummose, and Amenmose at Thebes]”, in Orientalia (Nova Series), volume 68, number 3, page 274:
- p. 87 and pl. XXXIV, middle register, scene 6.3. b: There appears to be a pithecomorphic vessel beneath the woman's stool. For actual examples compare M. Valloggia, “Deux objets thériomorphes découverts dans le mastaba V de Balat”, Livre du centenaire (MIFAO 104; Cairo 1980) 143-151; […]
- 2000, Mario Torelli, The Etruscans, Milano: Bompiani, →ISBN, page 456:
- […] the exotic little monkey in stamped relief departs from those archetypes and is a more familiar figure in the culture of the seal owner, for the pithecomorphic imagery is indeed found again on an ivory ring, a gold buckle, and a small bronze pendant.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pithecomorphic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.