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Definition of Immolated
1. immolate [v] - See also: immolate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immolated
Literary usage of Immolated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biblical and theological dictionary by Richard Watson (1832)
"6, & The victims immolated at a holocaust were bullocks of three years old, goats
and lambs of a year old, turtle-doves, and young pigeons. ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Classical by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... that Thisbe had been devoured and so killed himself, and Thisbe, returning,
immolated herself on his corpse. ..."
3. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1839)
"Laid by the direction of his will, in the Augustine chapel, by the side of her
he had both loved and immolated, he closed his passionate, but sad career, ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country: In South Africa by Allen Francis Gardiner (1836)
"... and who, together with ourselves, would all some night have probably been
immolated but for the security of the present treaty. SUNSET AT BEREA. ..."
5. Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is by Henry Theodore Cheever (1856)
"... of despots- Legendary exploit of an Hawaiian Gracchus—Sole feature of humanity
in the system of paganism—Human sacrifices—Numbers once immolated—Last at ..."
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