Hecatomb

(hek'a-toom.) (From Gr. hekaton, a hundred, and bous, an ox.] (Antiq.) Among the Greeks, a sacrifice offered up on extraordinary occasions, consisting of a hundred oxen served up by a hundred priests upon a hundred altars:- hence, among the moderns, the word is understood to signify the public oblation ofa large number of victims. [s. 445]