taurobolyn.

/tɔːˈrɒbəli/

Etymology: < Latin taurobolium (also in English use), < Greek ταυροβόλος striking or slaughtering bulls, < ταῦρος bull + stem of βολή cast, stroke, wound. So French taurobole.

Ancient Greek History.

The slaughter of a bull or bulls; spec. a pagan sacrifice of a bull in honour of Cybele, with its attendant rites, including a bath in bulls' blood; also, the representation of such a slaughter or sacrifice in sculpture, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > of bull

tauroboly1700

1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. Tauropolium, or Tauropolion [sic], Sacrifices of Bulls, which were offered to Cybele,..to render Thanks..for her teaching Men the Art to tame those Animals.

a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 114/1 They offered a sacrifice of a bull or ram, (whence the terms Taurobolium and Ariobolium,) in the blood of which the hierophant was also sprinkled.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 332 Such were the taurobolies and kriobolies—hideous blood baths.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity 3 note The taurobolies and kriobolies (baths in the blood of bulls and rams) mark the extreme sensuality of superstition.

1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers I. ix. 562 He [Julian] washed away the lustral waters of baptism in the reeking horrors of a Tauroboly.

1891 W. Smith et al. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 3) II. 762/2 A temple of the Magna Mater where these rites of taurobolium were celebrated stood on the Vatican.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	tauroboly
释义	taurobolyn. /tɔːˈrɒbəli/ Etymology: < Latin taurobolium (also in English use), < Greek ταυροβόλος striking or slaughtering bulls, < ταῦρος bull + stem of βολή cast, stroke, wound. So French taurobole. Ancient Greek History. The slaughter of a bull or bulls; spec. a pagan sacrifice of a bull in honour of Cybele, with its attendant rites, including a bath in bulls' blood; also, the representation of such a slaughter or sacrifice in sculpture, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > of bull tauroboly1700 1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. Tauropolium, or Tauropolion [sic], Sacrifices of Bulls, which were offered to Cybele,..to render Thanks..for her teaching Men the Art to tame those Animals. a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 114/1 They offered a sacrifice of a bull or ram, (whence the terms Taurobolium and Ariobolium,) in the blood of which the hierophant was also sprinkled. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 332 Such were the taurobolies and kriobolies—hideous blood baths. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity 3 note The taurobolies and kriobolies (baths in the blood of bulls and rams) mark the extreme sensuality of superstition. 1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers I. ix. 562 He [Julian] washed away the lustral waters of baptism in the reeking horrors of a Tauroboly. 1891 W. Smith et al. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 3) II. 762/2 A temple of the Magna Mater where these rites of taurobolium were celebrated stood on the Vatican. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1700
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