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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Zoomorphism \Zo`o*mor"phism\, n. 1. The transformation of men into beasts. [R.] --Smart. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of representing or using animal forms; as, zoomorphism in ornament. [1913 Webster] 3. The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals. [1913 Webster] To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoomorphism. --Mivart. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

zoomorphism n 1: the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god