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The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem,purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master,and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immensetracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.
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