English Explanatory Dictionary

scape-animal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

scape-animal scape-animals

Etymology

From scape + animal; modelled on scapegoat.

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