piacular

"The rites will be the same, though with the addition of a piacular sacrifice.

The Carnea appears to have been at once agrarian, military and piacular in character.

Thank all the Gods for that, thought Caesar, having no trouble in imagining who would constitute the piacular sacrifice.

And those behind it, he thought, are surely the Piacular Legion, their faces dour and their weapons bristling.

The piacular sacrifice took place several days later, by which time Caesar had readied himself for his journey to take up duty under Marcus Minucius Thermus, governor of Asia Province.

Most likely it derives from Durkheim whose penultimate chapter in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life is entitled 'Piacular Rites and the Ambiguity of the Notion of Sacredness'.

His feet grated on the gritty floor of the Bololo Commons, making a scritching sound that drew the attention of a soldier, one of the Piacular Legion who was slicing the air with a single-edged sword.

We were entering the square in which was the eighon-block whereon so many thousand miscreants had laid their piacular necks, when we heard an outcry of mortal dread and agony such as only one thing in the world could have occasioned.

King Euvoran was wroth at this unseemly turmoil that had interrupted his supper; and when the golden arrack was spilt and the dishes of rare meat were emptied on the floor by the vessel's violent rocking, he would have issued from his cabin, fully armed, to try conclusions with these piacular miscreants.