hecatomb
noun
1 hecatomb
A great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen.
Roget 98:
five,
cinque [Fr.],
quint,
quincux†;
six,
half-a-dozen,
half dozen;
seven;
eight;
nine,
three times three;
dicker;
ten,
decade;
eleven;
twelve,
dozen;
thirteen;
long dozen,
baker's dozen;
quintuplet;
twenty,
score;
twenty-four,
four and twenty,
two dozen;
twenty-five,
five and twenty,
quarter of a hundred;
forty,
two score;
fifty,
half a hundred;
sixty,
three score;
seventy,
three score and ten;
eighty,
four score;
ninety,
fourscore and ten;
sestiad†.
hundred,
centenary,
hecatomb,
century;
hundredweight,
cwt. ;
one hundred and forty-four,
gross.
thousand,
chiliad;
millennium,
thousand years,
grand [Coll.];
myriad;
ten thousand,
ban [Jap.],
man [Jap.];
ten thousand years,
banzai [Jap.];
lac,
one hundred thousand,
plum;
million;
thousand million,
milliard,
billion,
trillion
etc.
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Roget 991:
idolatry,
idolism†;
demonism†,
demonolatry†;
idol-worship,
demon-worship,
devil-worship,
fire-worship;
zoolatry,
fetishism,
fetichism;
ecclesiolatry†,
heliolatry,
Mariolatry,
Bibliolatry†.
deification,
apotheosis,
canonization;
hero worship.
sacrifices,
hecatomb,
holocaust;
human sacrifices,
immolation,
mactation†,
infanticide,
self-immolation,
suttee.
idol,
golden calf,
graven image,
fetich,
avatar,
Juggernath†,
lares et penates [Lat.];
Baal
etc.
986†.
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Polish: hekatomba
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