animal sacrifice
noun
The practice or an act of ritually slaughtering an animal as an offering to a god or gods; an animal sacrificed in this way.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Scott (1639–1695), Church of England clergyman.
- monkeys' parade
- monkey spoon
- monkey stove
- monkey-strap
- monkey suit
- monkey's wedding
- monkey tail
- monkey thorn
- monkey trial
- monkey tricks
- monkey vine
- monkey-waist
- Monkey Ward
- Monkey Ward's
- monkey wheel
- monkey work
- monkey wrench
- monkey-wrencher
- monkfish
- Mon-Khmer
- monkhood
- monkish
- monkishly
- monkishness
- monkism