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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOLOCAUST (Gr. b'orcavcrov, or okbeavrov, wholly burnt)

HOLOCAUST (Gr. b'orcavcrov, or okbeavrov, wholly burnt) , strictly a

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SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice wholly destroyed by

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FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire, such as the sacrifices of the

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Jews, described in the

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PENTATEUCH

Pentateuch as " whole burnt offerings " (see SACRIFICE) . The

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TERM

term is now often applied to a

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CATASTROPHE (Gr. Karaurpoch, from KaraQrp4ecv, to over-turn)

catastrophe on a large

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scale, whether by fire or not, or to a

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MASSACRE

massacre or slaughter .

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