Citations:pedophagic

Adjective: "engaging in, involving, or related to the eating of children"

 * 1987, Barbara A. Miliaras, Pillar of Flame: The Mythological Foundations of D. H. Lawrence's Sexual Philosophy, Peter Lang (1987), ISBN 9780820402710, page 82:
 * However, Annable represents on his part the masculine aspect of the uroboros, the pedophagic father of archetypal mythology, the Moloch figure, and is thus equally as dangerous and destructive as his female counterpart.
 * 1997, A. J. Boyle, Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition, Routledge (1997), ISBN 0415124956, unnumbered page:
 * The description of the preparation of the children for the play's pedophagic banquet recalls the Messenger's description in Seneca's Thyestes,
 * 1999, Indian Review of Books, Volume 9, page 46:
 * They are the myths thrown up by our century of impossibilities: pedophagic Saturns to match latter-day heroes who have quaffed immortality.
 * 2000, Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, British Film Institute (2000), ISBN 9780851707426, page 55:
 * I have already discussed the key visionary scene in Metropolis, Freder's vision in which he sees the central machine of the city transform itself into a demon, the cannibalistic, pedophagic god, Moloch.
 * 2001, John Barth, Chimera:
 * favor on Olympus: was I pandering to public opinion, yielding to the pedophagic protest groups, or kicking over my traces like a foolish forty-year-old?
 * 2003, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
 * puppet surrendered up to the pedophagic freak show which mah mother would so sadistically invoke - even then, no more than a mite, not even a lustrum of