The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . holocaust, <L. holocaitstum, < Gr. h^dKavcrov, oA6KavTov, awhole burnt-offering, neut. of olomvaTo^, iiAo-KavToq, burnt whole, < SjAoq, whole, -f Kaiordf,KavTOQ, burnt, < aaitiv, burn: see caustic.] sacrifice or offering entirely consumed byfire, in use among the Jews and some pagannations. And therefore thus must the lesuite do when an Igna-tian .Superiour commands, or else he is no Holocaust forthe Leiolau Altar. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 171. And
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . holocaust, <L. holocaitstum, < Gr. h^dKavcrov, oA6KavTov, awhole burnt-offering, neut. of olomvaTo^, iiAo-KavToq, burnt whole, < SjAoq, whole, -f Kaiordf,KavTOQ, burnt, < aaitiv, burn: see caustic.] sacrifice or offering entirely consumed byfire, in use among the Jews and some pagannations. And therefore thus must the lesuite do when an Igna-tian .Superiour commands, or else he is no Holocaust forthe Leiolau Altar. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 171. And she, thus left alone, might sooner proveThe perfect holocaust of generous love. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xxiv. 194, Eumenes cut a piece from every part of the victim, andby this he made it an holocaust, or an entire sacrifice. W. Broome. 2. Figuratively, a great slaughter or sacrificeof life, as by fire or other accident, or in bat-tle. Holocentridaa (hol-o-sentri-de), n. pi. [NL., < Holocentrus + -idw.] A family of acanthop-terygian fishes of the superfamily Berycoideti ;the squirrel-fishes. The limits of the group vary with. Squirrel-fish tHolocentrus erythrans), ditferent writers, {a) In the old systems it was essentiallycoequal with the family Beryi-iilee. (It) In a restricted sense,the if(j;oce/i/rJftareflshesof oblong form with compressedhead, ctenoid scales, narrow suborbitals, 8 branchiostegalrays, 2 dorsals, of which the spinous is longer than thesoft one, and ventrals of 7 rays besides the spine. Thereare numerous (about 50) tropical species. holocentroid (hol-o-sentroid), a. and n. [<Holocentrus + -ok/.] I. a. Of or relating tothe Holocen n. One of the Holocentridce. Holocentrus (hol-o-seutrus), v. [NL. (Bloch,1790), < ?. ijAog, whole, + Kevrpov, a point, thecenter.] The typical genus of the family Ho-locentridw: so called because beset all overwith spines. H. ascencionis is a Floridian species,of bright-reddish color and great activity, and anotheris
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