Cannibal

n. [Fr. cannibale; Columbus, in a letter to the Spanish monarchs of Oct., 1498, mentions that the people of Hayti lived in great fear of the Caribales (equivalent to Eng. Caribbees), the inhabitants of the smaller Antilles; which form of the name was afterward changed into N. Lat. Canibales, in order to express more forcibly their character by a word intelligible through a Latin root, “propter rabiem caninam anthropophagorum gentis.” The Caribees call themselves, in their own language, Calinago, Carinago, Calliponam, and, abbreviated, Calina, signifying a brave and valiant man, from which Columbus formed his Caribales.] A human being that eats human flesh; a man-eater, or anthropophagite.

That face of his The hungry cannibals would not have touched. Shak.

a. Of, or relating to, the practices of cannibals. “Cannibal terror.” Burke.