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  • 1Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …

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  • 2Sacrifice — • This term is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sacrifice     Sacrifice      …

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  • 3Sacrifice — (from a Middle English verb meaning to make sacred , from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacr , sacred + facere , to make ) is commonly known as the practice of offering food, objects (typically valuables), or the lives of animals or people …

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  • 4Great Moravia — 833[Note 1] – 902 …

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  • 5sacrifice — sacrificeable, adj. sacrificer, n. /sak reuh fuys /, n., v., sacrificed, sacrificing. n. 1. the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage. 2. the person, animal, or thing so… …

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  • 6SACRIFICE — IN THE BIBLE In the Bible various verbs are used to designate the act of sacrifice. Two of them, שחט and טבח, are used for the slaughter of animals for both secular (cf. Gen. 43:16; Num. 11:22) and sacred purposes, while the verbs זבח (hence the… …

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  • 7Sacrifice in Maya culture — Maya civiliza …

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  • 8Great Apostasy — The Great Apostasy is a term used by some religious groups to allege a general fallen state of traditional Christianity, or especially of Catholicism, magisterial Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, that it is not representative of the faith… …

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  • 9sacrifice — 01. He totally [sacrificed] his marriage and his family for his career, and now he finds himself a very successful, lonely businessman. 02. The Aztecs [sacrificed] people to their gods. 03. She [sacrificed] a lot of her free time growing up in… …

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  • 10sacrifice — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 giving sth up ADJECTIVE ▪ big, considerable, enormous, great, heavy, huge, real, tremendous ▪ financial …

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