Definition of Shechita

1. the kosher killing of animals [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shechita

sheaved
sheaves
sheaving
shebander
shebang
shebangs
shebean
shebeans
shebeen
shebeened
shebeens
sheboon
shechinah
shechinahs
shechita (current term)
shechitas
shed
shed a tear
shed blood
shed light on
shed light upon
shed load
shed loads
shed roof
shed roofs
shed rooves
shed tears
shedable
sheddable

Literary usage of Shechita

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History by James Picciotto (1875)
"... shechita.—SYNAGOGUE DIFFERENCES. THE prize-ring is not a very noble arena of contest, and pugilistic encounters do not present a refined and elevated ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"The shechita cut is indisputably the most rapid and safe mode of slaughtering. ... Now the main reason for the better bleeding by the shechita method is ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"At last, by dint of persistent importunity, several municipal bodies were prevailed upon to forbid the shechita within their jurisdiction. ..."

4. Aspects of Jewish Life and Thought (The Letters of Benammi) by Benammi (1922)
"And when shechita is attacked, all Jews should unite to defend it, for they are fighting not ... The adoption of shechita means increased humanitar- ianism. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"In the Helvetian republic spasmodic efforts have been made in a few cantons to put down the shechita, but in Germany the opposition has made its way into ..."

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