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Definition of Ritual killing
1. Noun. The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Generic synonyms: Kill, Killing, Putting To Death
Specialized synonyms: Hecatomb, Immolation
Derivative terms: Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrificial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ritual Killing
Literary usage of Ritual killing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In Australia, however, where sacrifice of the ordinary type is unknown, the ritual
killing of a child is practised in connexion with the initiation of a ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In Australia, however, where sacrifice of the ordinary type is unknown, the ritual
killing of a child is practised in connexion with the initiation of a ..."
3. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"... a place between Bethhoron and a, slew a Jew who was offering sacrifice according
to heathen ritual, killing the Syrian officer at the same time. ..."
4. Adventure Guide to Germany by Henk Bekker (2005)
"His death was blamed on a ritual killing by the local Jews and a pogrom followed.
The chapel was built to house Werner's bones and became a pilgrimage ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1901)
"... a place between Bethhoron and *• Lydda, slew a Jew who was offering sacrifice
according to heathen ritual, killing the Syrian officer at the same time. ..."
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