Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HEC'A-TOMB
HEC'A-TOMB, n. [L. hecatombe; Gr. εκατομβη; εκατον, a hundred, and βους, an ox.]
In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen or beasts of the same kind, and it is said, at a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests. Encyc.
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