scape-animal
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An animal that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is sent out alive into the wilderness to carry away the afflictions.
— A very common one was to take an animal and, after various ceremonies, to sprinkle it with blood and let it loose as a scape-animal, carrying the disease away.
词形变化
词源
From scape + animal; modelled on scapegoat.
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