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Definition of Immolate
1. Verb. Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction. "Immolate the valuables at the temple"
Definition of Immolate
1. v. t. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
Definition of Immolate
1. Verb. to kill as a sacrifice ¹
2. Verb. to destroy, especially by fire ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immolate
1. to kill as a sacrifice [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immolate
Literary usage of Immolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"... a wayside looker-on was heard to s¡ y — "I hope it will rain everywhere it gees."
I here was an instantaneous wish to immolate the л ..."
2. Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms by John Lemprière, Lorenzo Da Ponte, John David Ogilby (1866)
"53. office to immolate these strangers, gence that they were Grecians delayed
ihe preparations, and Iphigenia was anxious to feir: something about a country ..."
3. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 by Edouard de Warren (1854)
"... or Assassins—Eleazar—Siege of Masada—The garrison immolate themselves—Assault
by the Romans under Silva—Ruins of Masada as they are at present—Gothic ..."
4. Annals of Ireland: Three Fragments by Duald Mac Firbis, Duald MacFirbis, John O'Donovan, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (1860)
"But, however, the Lord is merciful and forgiving, and do thou immolate* thyself
to him for the cruelty which was in thy heart towards the ..."
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