hecatomb's Usage Examples:

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

After the presentation of the peplus, the hecatomb was sacrificed.

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.

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.

Synonyms:

ritual killing, sacrifice,

Antonyms:

buy,