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Meaning of "creophagy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CREOPHAGY

creophagy  [krɪˈɒfədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREOPHAGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Creophagy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CREOPHAGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of creophagy in the English dictionary

The definition of creophagy in the dictionary is the practice of eating flesh.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREOPHAGY


anthropophagy
ˌænθrəˈpɒfədʒɪ
autocoprophagy
ˌɔːtəʊkəˈprɒfədʒɪ
autophagy
ɔːˈtɒfədʒɪ
bacteriophagy
bækˌtɪərɪˈɒfədʒɪ
coprophagy
kɒˈprɒfədʒɪ
endophagy
ɛnˈdɒfədʒɪ
exophagy
ɛkˈsɒfədʒɪ
geophagy
dʒɪˈɒfədʒɪ
hippophagy
hɪˈpɒfədʒɪ
ichthyophagy
ˌɪkθɪˈɒfədʒɪ
monophagy
mɒnˈɒfədʒɪ
mycophagy
maɪˈkɒfədʒɪ
omophagy
əʊˈmɒfədʒɪ
ostreophagy
ˌɒstrɪˈɒfədʒɪ
pantophagy
pænˈtɒfədʒɪ
phytophagy
faɪˈtɒfədʒɪ
scatophagy
skæˈtɒfədʒɪ
theophagy
θɪˈɒfədʒɪ
xerophagy
zɪəˈrɒfədʒɪ
zoophagy
zəʊˈɒfədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREOPHAGY

creodont
creole
Creole State
creolian
creolisation
creolise
creolised
creolist
creolization
creolized
Creon
creophagous
creosol
creosote
creosote bush
creosotic
crepance
crepe
crepe bandage
crepe de Chine

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREOPHAGY

aerophagy
baggy
biology
cabbagy
cagy
doggy
energy
entomophagy
garbagy
genealogy
gy
Moholy-Nagy
Nagy
orgy
polyphagy
psychology
sagy
stagy
strategy
technology

Synonyms and antonyms of creophagy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «creophagy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREOPHAGY

Find out the translation of creophagy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of creophagy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «creophagy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

creophagy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

creophagy
570 millions of speakers

English

creophagy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

creophagy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أكل اللحوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

creophagy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

creophagy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

creophagy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

creophagy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Creophagy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

creophagy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

creophagy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

creophagy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Creophagy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

creophagy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாமிசத்தை உணவாக்க் கொள்ளுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रिफॉजी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

creophagy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

creophagy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

creophagy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

creophagy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

creophagy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

creophagy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

creophagy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

creophagy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

creophagy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of creophagy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREOPHAGY»

The term «creophagy» is used very little and occupies the 157.242 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about creophagy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREOPHAGY»

Discover the use of creophagy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to creophagy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of ...
Page 22 : — Faith does not need corporeally to feed on the body of Christ ; and indeed no man ever really believed in such a corporeal eating of Christ's body. That would be Creophagy (xpi*s, Qxytit), page 23. possess Him as to His deity, we ...
Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, 1862
2
History of the development of the doctrine of the person of ...
Page 22 : — Faith does not need corporeally to feed on the body of Christ ; and indeed no man ever really believed in such a corporeal eating of Christ's body. That would be Creophagy (xpstt{, Qctyeh), page 23. possess Him as to His deity,  ...
Isaak August Dorner, Jesus Christ, 1866
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ...
... surprise that the charge of creophagy or carnal manducation has often been urged against the Catholic doctrine ; a charge which it is almost unnecessary to add, is wholly without foundation.1 And 1 We may cite in illustration of our meaning ...
4
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Ex: creophagy, adj creophagous, flesheating. Cf: creos(o)-: c/f of creosote, as, in creosol, which= creos(o)-+-ol, oil. The 2nd elementcomes from Gr sdzein (s .rdz-), to preserve; for the 1st, see prec. -crete, as in calcrete, a type of limestone, ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
5
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems
... ,kDrma<0>'fi<y>tik[+gk] creophagous kn<e>'ofagos[+gk] kri'ofa<a>gaS[+gk] creophagy kn<e>'ofagi[+gk] kri'of9<a>ji[+gk] creosote 'kn<e>o,sot 'kria<0>,sout creosotic ,kn<e>o's6tik ,kria<0>'sotik diaphonic .difcfonikj+gk] ,daia<a>fonik[+gk]  ...
Richard Sproat, 2000
6
East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
Yet the agent does not engage in creophagy, or meat-eating, and, instead, rescues and leads the horse out of the androcentric sphere and withdraws to wilderness; more precisely, she and the horse, marginalized in the culturally constructed ...
Simon C. Estok, Won-Chung Kim, 2013
7
Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
Qualifying words: acreophagist, acreopha- gous, acreophagy. creatinase, creatinemia, cre- atinuria, creatotoxin, creatoxin, creophage, cre- odont, creophagism, creophagist, creophagous, creophagy, creosote, creotoxin, creotoxism, ...
John G. Robertson, 1991
8
Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, Voss, and Other Novels
9. creophagy 10. zoophagous 11. carnivorous man-eating . . 12. androphagous 13. anthropophagy nuts.. 10. nucivorous 11. nuciphagous plants, herbs.. 11. herbivorous 12. phytophagous roots . . 12. rhizophagous eavesdrop ... 3. bug 4. drip ...
Herbert Reaske, 1977
9
Modern Medicine and Bacteriological Review
At the rate with which we are now advancing in creophagy, it will not be more than a quarter of a century before deviled cat, fricasseed dog, and a variety of similar dishes will appear upon our bills of fare alongside of baked opossum, donkey ...
John Harvey Kellogg, 1896
10
Portugues-Inglês
crenulate(d). ereofogia s. f. creophagy: habit of flesh-eating. creofogo s. m. creophagist: flesh-eater, carnivore. I adj. creophogous carnivorous, flesh-eating. creelina s. f. Creolin, creolin (desinfectant). creosotagem s. f. (pi. -ens) impregnation ...
Henriette Michaelis, Fritz Pietzschke, 1970

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CREOPHAGY»

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79 students battle it out at Spelling Bee Championship
Other words heard during the day were caliginous, creophagy and pusillanimous. Ninth grader, Nisha Venkat, who spelt pusillanimous ... «Khaleej Times, Feb 14»

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