What is "sacrificial"

Usage examples of "sacrificial".

According to the ancient Analects, which guided the practitioners of Confucianism, ginger was such an important food that Confucius approved of its use even during periods of fasting or sacrificial worship, when the consumption of all other pungent or malodorous foods was prohibited.

A sacrificial Mediator with Jehovah, that expiatory intercessor born from the chosen house of the chosen people, yet blending in his inexplicable nature the divine essence with the human elements, appointed before all time, and purifying, by his atoning blood, the myriads that preceded and the myriads that will follow us, without distinction of creed or clime, this is what you believe.

As the terrified figure was dragged towards the sacrificial fire by the faithful, the stenchy smoke more and more constricted his throat and his lungs choked for the life-giving clear air.

Next came the sacrificial victims, two pure white oxen to be offered to Jupiter Optimus Maximus when the triumphator reached the foot of the steps to his temple on the Capitol.

Veda: among them his divine birth is that which is distinguished by the ligation of the zone and sacrificial cord, and in that birth the Gayatri is his mother, and the Acharya his father.

Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.

Great Goddess emerges miraculously out of death, out of the sacrificial bull, and in her body the new life begins.

Not only did they have the great Marcus Antonius, they also had Caesar Divi Filius, who was their sacrificial victim as well as their darling.

They were finning towards the pedestal in the centre of the chamber, their beams converging on the edge of the sacrificial platform.

But the change was also based on the findings of folklorists such as Alexander Afanasiev, who had linked these vernal cults with sacrificial rituals involving maiden girls.

Bless King Minos for the ease of Knossian flush toilets and damn him for his yearly tribute of Greek sacrificial victims.

She constantly talked of the fierce retribution of the fierce sacrificial pit of the fire god, the Moloch that would result from his sinning actions.

Otherwise the virtuous ones feared that the fornicators would go, like the all sinners, to the fiery sacrificial pit of the Moloch, and their souls will rot in the foulness of hell.

Counting all planes in these mass attacks, together with individual kamikaze attacks not included in the table, over 3000 sacrificial sorties were launched against American naval forces in the Okinawan campaign.

On an ancient sacrificial vessel found in Denmark, having several compartments, a serpent is represented attacking a kneeling boy, pursuing him, retreating before him, appealed to beseechingly by him, and conversing with him.