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单词 omophagy
释义

omophagyn.

Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈmɒfədʒi/, U.S. /oʊˈmɑfədʒi/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Greek ὠμος , -phagy comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ὠμος raw (see omophagia n.) + -phagy comb. form, after French omophagie the practice of eating raw flesh (1732 as plural with reference to feasts of Bacchus, early 19th cent. as singular) or Hellenistic Greek ὠμοϕαγία omophagia n. Compare earlier omophagia n.
The practice of eating raw flesh, esp. as part of a bacchanalian or other religious rite (cf. quot. 1706 at omophagia n.).
ΚΠ
1888 F. M. Müller Biogr. of Words Introd. p. xxvii Agriologists are quite convinced that all humanity must begin with metrocracy, communal marriage, omophagy, and cannibalism.
1905 Athenæum 16 Sept. 377/3 Such an omophagy certainly formed part of the cult of Dionysus.
1937 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 38 97 Notable also is the demonstration how slight evidence we have..that any one ever associated theophagy with the Dionysiac omophagy.
1998 M. Warner No Go Bogeyman (2000) iv. 104 Both omophagy and anthrophagy take place at Satan's profane banquets, for diabolical predators do not always prefer their meat raw.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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