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scape-animals

scape-animals is the plural of scape-animal.

Meaning of scape-animal

Noun

scape-animal (plural scape-animals)

  1. An animal that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is sent out alive into the wilderness to carry away the afflictions.
    • A very common one was to take an animal and, after various ceremonies, to sprinkle it with blood and let it loose as a scape-animal, carrying the disease away.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32

Questions about scape-animals

What is scape-animals the plural of?
Scape-animals is the plural of scape-animal.

Words near scape-animals in the dictionary

  1. scap-nets
  2. Scapa
  3. Scapa Flow
  4. scape
  5. scape-animal
  6. scape-animals
  7. scape-bird
  8. scape-birds
  9. scape-wheel
  10. scape-wheels
  11. scaped

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