sacrificially

Examples of sacrificial

sacrificial
However, there are preliminary attempts to connect the moral sense of sacrificial ethics to transform the practices in the larger socio-political spheres.
As such, the spatializing and performative rhetorical acts such as state ceremonies, urban spectacles, sacrificial rituals and royal hunts must be included in this definition.
The same thing applies to the remedy, made with vegetable and animal components, the efficacy of which depends on respecting prohibitions and sacrificial prescriptions.
Bitonal projection identifies as pariahs the two women who violate hallowed boundaries; it marks them off as sacrificial victims.
This would make evolutionary nonsense, as organisms would be liable to learn to engage in sacrificial behavior at the expense of their fitness.
Following this sequence of depositing and patterning each layer, the structural layers are "released" by dissolving the sacrificial layers using hydroflouric acid.
In addition, we expected to encounter more sacrificial offerings or royal graves at the upper level.
In 1995, the newspapers framed him as a sacrificial candidate, running only so that the shoo-in winner would have someone to run against.
Sheep are also suitable as sacrificial conduits for communications with the ancestors though only with those of the lineage.
Using a fire drill, the priests then star ted a new fire on the chest of a sacrificial victim.
There are further sacrificial implications: correcting and amending were expected as results of the purification by fire.
This would explain why sacrificial victims, regardless of pedigree, were clearly marked out as religious offerings.
The aspect of submission, or offering of the self, is emphasized today as the most important feature of the sacrificial ritual in the villagers' discourse.
Based on his position, we believe that this person was a sacrificial victim, although he could have been of high social status.
The idea of drawing energy from a sacrificial victim, whether an animal or a human, was characteristic of many ancient religions.
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