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–noun
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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< Gk
sparagmós
lit., tearing
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sparagmos
ritual death of a hero in tragedy or myth, 1949, from Gk.
sparagmos
, lit. "tearing, rending."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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