| 单词 | animal sacrifice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal sacrifice animal sacrifice n. the practice or an act of ritually slaughtering an animal as an offering to a god or gods; an animal sacrificed in this way. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal sin-offering1535 trespass-offering1535 animal sacrifice1686 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 692 Animal Sacrifices were generally used before the institution of the Aaronical Priesthood. 1756 J. Orton Doddridge's Family Expositor VI. 104 That Regard to the great Atonement, which he expressed by bringing an Animal Sacrifice, while Cain contented himself with the vegetable Products of the Ground. 1866 M. Mayer tr. A. Geiger Judaism & its Hist. v. 93 Animal Sacrifice has also for its object to win favor by giving up some property, without tending to moral reform. 1989 E. M. Yamauchi in J. Vardaman & E. M. Yamauchi Chronos, Kairos, Christos 26 A famous relief..in northwest Asia Minor depicts magi bringing animal sacrifices. 2009 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Final ed.) 27 The world's biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal yesterday with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a Hindu festival. < as lemmas |
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