HOLOCAUST- It doesn't mean what they want us to think it means....

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HOLOCAUST

1.a. Old English–1868 † A sacrifice, an offering.

1496- Very true obedyence is an holocauste of martyrdom made to Cryst. J. Alcock, Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. ciijv

1648- The perfect Holocaust of generous Love. J. Beaumont, Psyche xx. clxxiv. 396

1688- We..humbly offer our Lives and Fortunes..which is that true Holocaust which all true honest-hearted Scotsmen will give to so good..a Prince. in London Gazette No. 2401/1a

1711- While I thy Holocaust remain. T. Ken, Anodynes in Works (1721) vol. III. 477

1868- By another grand holocaust of fellowships we might perhaps purchase another respite. M. Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation v. 139

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1.b. ca. 1325–spec. Something which is burned whole as a sacrifice or offering to a god; a religious sacrifice involving consumption by fire. historical in later use.

a1325 (c1250)- Ysaac was leid ðat auter on, So men sulden holocaust don. Genesis & Exodus (1968) l. 1326

c1400- Holocaustes for synne ne plesede þe noȝt. Prose Versions New Testament: Heb. (Selwyn MS.) (1904) x. 6 (Middle English Dictionary)

1526- A greater thynge then all holocaustes [Greek ὁλοκαυτωμάτων] and sacrifises. Bible (Tyndale) Mark xii. f. lxiijv

1568- Knew I thow covet sacrifyiss, Or offerand holocast wald pryiss, I sowld thame gif, bot thow denyiss. A. Scott, Poems (1896) 94

1680- In the latter part thereof stands the altar of Holocausts. H. More, Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 101

1732- These Druids wou'd have sacrificed many a Holocaust of Free-thinkers. G. Berkeley, Alciphron vol. I. v. iii. 272

1847- A holocaust of the most munificent character... Three thousand cattle were offered up. G. Grote, History of Greece vol. IV. ii. xxxii. 254

2002- At a thysia, only the non-edible parts of the victim were burnt and the rest of the meat was available for consumption by the worshippers. The complete opposite to such a sacrifice was a holocaust, meaning that the whole victim was destroyed in the fire. G. Ekroth, Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-cults iii. 217