piaculum
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Here the theory is confronted by the holocaust and the piaculum, expiatory sacrifices in which there is no communal eating.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
The ships shared the infamy; the venerable and noble Caraccioli, seventy-five years of age, himself an admiral, was the first piaculum!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
Any slip or omission was, in fact, a piaculum, or sacrum commissum—terms of the ius divinum which seem to suggest, if I may use the expression, the obverse side of holiness.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
