human sacrifice
noun
The ritual killing of a human as an offering to a god or gods; (as a count noun) an instance of this; a human sacrificed in this way.
Origin
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in Thomas Underdowne (fl. 1566–1577), poet and translator.
- roughometer
- roughout
- rough passage
- rough plate
- rough pâté
- rough ray
- rough rendering
- rough rice
- rough-ride
- rough-rider
- Rough Rider
- rough-riding
- rough-scaled lizard
- rough scruff
- rough scuff
- rough seal
- rough service
- roughshod
- rough shoot
- rough-shooting
- rough skin
- rough-skinned
- rough-skinned plum
- rough sleeper
- rough sleeping