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tauroboly noun. . L15.
[Latin taurobolium from Greek taurobolos, from tauros bull + stem of bole a cast, stroke, wound.]
Greek Antiquities. The killing of a bull or bulls; spec. a sacrifice of a bull including a ritual bath in bulls' blood, in honour of the fertility and nature goddess Cybele; a representation of this.