Definitionn. an act of mass destruction and loss of life
Last update: October 21, 2015
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9 0) in which the supreme spirit is conceived of as the person or man (purusha), born in the beginning, and consisting of "whatever hath been and whatever shall be," the creation of the visible and invisible universe is represented as originating from an "all-offered" (holocaust) sacrifice in which the Purusha himself forms the offering-material (havis), or, as we might say, the victim. [Please select]
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A dream of earthquake, holocaust, and general destruction developed gradually into full consciousness at four-thirty. [Please select]
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This holocaust was given as one reason why Ts'in could never "rule in the East," _i.' [Please select]
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It had been a tremendous holocaust, and with no result. [Please select]
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Then there's going to be a holocaust, my friend. [Please select]
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This Shakespearian holocaust would scarcely cost me a pang. [Please select]
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The foremost ranks of the great host thus become victims, and the others pass safely across upon the holocaust thus made. [Please select]
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When, after the holocaust of books, it was desired to collect the ancient classics again, texts were found under strange circumstances in the walls of Confucius's house; they were written in an archaic script. [Please select]
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