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tauroboly

tauroboly is the alternative form of taurobolium.

Meaning of taurobolium

Noun

taurobolium (plural taurobolia)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) The ritual slaughter of a bull.
    • The cult of the Magna Mater, borrowing the civic spirit proper to Roman religion, made of the official taurobolium a manifestation of loyalty to the institutions of the Roman Empire.1927, George La Piana, Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire, Harvard University Press, page 300

Questions about tauroboly

What is tauroboly the alternative form of?
Tauroboly is the alternative form of taurobolium.

Words near tauroboly in the dictionary

  1. taurinomethyl
  2. Tauris
  3. taurobolia
  4. taurobolic
  5. taurobolium
  6. tauroboly
  7. taurocephalous
  8. taurochenodeoxycholate
  9. taurochenodeoxycholates
  10. taurochenodeoxycholic acid
  11. taurochloramine

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