About The Word Immolate
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Immolate
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What's The Definition Of Immolate?
[v] offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Immolate: Related Terms | Find terms related to Immolate: annihilate | appease | bereave of life | carry away | carry off | chloroform | cut down | cut off | deprive of life | destroy | dispatch | dispose of | do away with | do for | do to death | end | execute | exterminate | finish | finish off | immolate before | kill | launch into eternity | liquidate | lynch | make away with | make propitiation | make sacrifice to | martyr | martyrize | offer sacrifice | poison | propitiate | purge | put away | put down | put to death | put to sleep | remove from life | sacrifice | slay | starve | take life | take off | victimize See Also | sacrifice Immolate In Webster's Dictionary \Im"mo*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Immolated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Immolating}.] [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to
sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal;
pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground
and mixed with salt; also, mill. See {Molar}, {Meal} ground
grain.]
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a
sacrificial victim.
Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities]
the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of
women. --Boyle.
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