zoomorphizehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoomorphize_v%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoomorphize, v.
Revised 2017

zoomorphizeverb

  1. 1940–
    transitive. To make zoomorphic; to attribute an animal form or nature to.
    1. 1940
      The wood anthropomorphized into the hero, the bow zoomorphized into his eagle.
      A. B. Cook, Zeus vol. III. ii. (Addenda) 1075
    2. 1968
      That he zoomorphizes man is to be expected.
      British Journal of Psychiatry vol. 114 1184/2
    3. 1984
      Are we simply zoomorphizing man?
      Polit. Psychology vol. 5 621
    4. 2006
      Long before Darwin, Hume similarly zoomorphised the human power of empirical reasoning.
      Guardian 16 May (G2 section) 25/3

zoomorphize, v. was revised in June 2017.

zoomorphize, v. was last modified in July 2023.