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▪ I. † immolate, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
[ad. L. immolāt-us, pa. pple. of immolāre: see next. (In early examples const. as pa. pple.: see next, and -ate2.)]
Sacrificed, immolated.
1534More On the Passion Wks. 1296/1 The nyght..wher in was immolate and offered in sacryfyce the vnspotted lambe. 1551Gardiner Explic. Cath. Fayth 148 (R.) Whether Christ be daily immolate or only ones. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai iii. 32 Nor were unconsumed The reeking victims immolate.
▪ II. immolate, v.|ˈɪməʊleɪt|
[f. L. immolāt-, ppl. stem of immolāre, orig. to sprinkle with sacrificial meal (mola salsa), f. im- (im-1) + mola meal. The pa. pple. seems to have been the part first used: cf. prec.]
1. trans. To sacrifice, offer in sacrifice; to kill as a victim. (Properly, and now only, of sacrifices in which life is taken.)
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 6 b, As though he should be a dewe sacrifice or an host immolated for the.. homicide. 1619H. Hutton Follies Anat. (Percy Soc.) 48 Pan did the first fruites of his fold present:..Ceres did immolate..Autumn's rich prime, and Terra's golden mines. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 126 They will cut themselves to immolate the bloud to their Idol. 1794Sullivan View Nat. V. 327 The horrible custom of immolating the captives of war at the tombs of those who had been slain in battle. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. v. 158 Human victims were immolated to the Thunderer.
†b. absol. or intr. To offer sacrifice, to sacrifice.
1628J. Hume Jewes Deliv. i. 10 They were wont to immolate and sacrifice vnto their heathenish Gods. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 15 In a certain place there, the Marabouts immolate at this time.
2. trans. and fig. To give up to destruction, or to severe suffering or loss, for the sake of something else; to ‘sacrifice’.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 91 Should I immolate my selfe to publique scorne. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. (1848) 333 To immolate their own inclinations and desires..to their Vanity. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 278 They had offered to immolate at the same shrine the most valuable of the national acquisitions. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. v. i. 306 The religion of Christ never immolates the Church at the Shrine of the priesthood.
Hence ˈimmolated, ˈimmolating ppl. adjs.
1548[see 1 above]. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxi. 145 In vain your immolated bulls are slain. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 139 His [Jesus'] voluntary..spirit..becomes officiating priest, and strikes his own person with immolating blow. |