एक महान बलिदान; 100 बैल का एक प्राचीन ग्रीक या रोमन बलिदान

Noun:

हेकटोम,

hecatombs's Usage Examples:

Whilst the oblations of Soma-juice, made thrice on each offering-day, amidst chants and recitations, constitute the central rites of those services, their ritual also requires numerous single oblations of the ishti kind, including at least three animal offerings, and in some cases the immolation of many hecatombs of victims. Moreover, a necessary preliminary to every Somasacrifice is the construction, in five layers, of a special fire-altar of large dimensions, consisting of thousands of bricks, formed and baked on the spot, to each, or each group, of which a: special symbolic meaning is attached.

What say you to the drunkenness which costs us, year by year, vast millions of money and whole hecatombs of human lives?

Where hecatombs were sacrificed, the irp60vo-es necessarily assumed colossal proportions, as in the case of the altar at Parion, where it measured on each side 600 ft.

33) speaks of "hecatombs of asses" being offered to him by the Hyperboreans.

hecatombs's Meaning':

a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen

Synonyms:

ritual killing, sacrifice,

Antonyms:

buy,