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sparagmos

[ spuh-rag-muhs ]

noun

  1. the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sparagmos1

From the Greek word sparagmós literally, tearing

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