Citations:holocaust

English citations of holocaust

(religion, also figuratively) To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.
- 1997, Kathie Carlson, Life’s Daughter/Death’s Bride: Inner Transformations through the Goddess Demeter/Persephone, Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 109:
  Is it any wonder that the ruler of such a place would be worshipped with aversion rather than invocation? Or that the offering to underworld deities was traditionally an offering that was holocausted, completely burnt and given over to the god, as in the worship of the Olympians in their temples above?

1985, Man-environment Systems:
How can the holocausting scapegoat sacrifice be redirected psychologically, to get us past our impasse and help us find viable channels for the new energies? Not by mere explaining or preaching to be sure. This is ineffective ...
2011, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Los Angeles, Or American Pharaohs, Deep Sett Press (→ISBN), page 221:
... to do it, and they do it well. Therefore they do it. Yummy. Yumminess comes out of the holocausted deer and the Versailles-Manhattanites party so long and hard in the streets and in the apartment buildings and especially on the fire escapes ...

To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.
- 1850, George Townsend, “[Friday, 8 March 1850]”, in Journal of a Tour in Italy, in 1850, with an Account of an Interview with the Pope, at the Vatican, London: Francis & John Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 119:
  The meek and candid persecutor, Cardinal [Reginald] Pole, who killed and took possession when [Thomas] Cranmer was holocausted, built the chapel, and became the voucher for the truth of the absurd legend.
- 1888, Bill Nye, “Julius Caesar in Town”, in Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Fun, Wit and Humor (The Pastime Series; 34), Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, published November 1889, →OCLC, page 18:
  Sulla once said, before [Julius] Cæsar had made much of a showing, that some day this young man would be the ruin of the aristocracy, and twenty years afterward, when Cæsar sacked, assassinated and holocausted a whole theological seminary for saying "eyether" and "nyether," the old settlers recalled what Sulla had said.

To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.
- 1978, Paul Rassinier, The Holocaust story and the lies of Ulysses: a study of the German concentration camps and the alleged extermination of European Jewry:
  Ancient Israel may have made "mistakes" in holocausting the Canaanites, and present-day Israelis may—at times—be a bit overbearing on the Palestinian interlopers in "the Promised Land," but one thing is sure: […]