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Meaning of holocaustus | Babel Free

Adjective feminine CEFR C1
[hɔ.ɫɔˈkau̯s.tʊs]

Definitions

burnt

adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“tamquam aurum in fornace probauit illos et quasi holocaustam hostiam accepit illos. [Contains the feminine accusative singular of holocaustus] [...] sed in anima et spiritu humilitatis acceptos nos habe ut holocaustos uictimas arietum et taurorum et quasi multa milia agnorum qui sunt pinguissimi. [Contains the feminine accusative plural of holocaustos]”

(please add an English translation of this quotation) Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (editors), The Writings of the Fathers Down to a.d. 325. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 5. Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix., 1995 (reprint; originally published 1886), p. 537 and 540: As gold in the furnace He proved them, and as a burnt-offering He received them. And yet in the soul and spirit of lowliness let us be accepted as the burnt-offerings of rams and bulls, and as it were many thousands of lambs which are fattest.

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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