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sparagmoses

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spar⋅ag⋅mos

  [spuh-rag-muhs]
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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.
Origin:
< 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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