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Definition(s):
- (n) a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen
Usage(s):
- The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb.
- If Obama does a good job on those matters, as far as I am concerned he can offer a hecatomb of goats to Apollo, or dismiss the gods as the fictions of mankind, and good luck to him.
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