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immolation|ɪməʊˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. immolātiōn-em, n. of action f. immolāre to immolate. Cf. F. immolation (13th c.).]
1. The action of immolating or offering in sacrifice; sacrificial slaughter of a victim; sacrifice.
1534More On the Passion Wks. 1296/1 Pascha in thebrew sygnyfyeth immolacion. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. iii. vii. (1884) 202 The immolatioun and sacrifice of the Paschal lambe. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 66 Immolations, yea of their owne children. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. viii. 246 In the Picture of the Immolation of Isaac, or Abraham sacrificing his son. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. i. 31 Immolation of victims to the gods of paganism.
b. Applied to the sacrifice of the mass.
1548Ridley Answ. Queries touching Mass iii, The Representation and Commemoration of Christ's Death and Passion, said and done in the Mass, is called the Sacrifice, Oblation, or Immolation of Christ. 1624Gataker Transubst. 5 That immolation of Christ's flesh which is done with the Priest's hand. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. i. 17 St. Beda..held that the immolation of this sacrifice was an injunction laid upon the priesthood of His Church by Christ Himself.
c. concr. That which is immolated; a sacrificial victim, a sacrifice, an oblation.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. ii. Prose Addit. (1612) 339 An Immolation or burnt sacrifice, offered to the Infernall Deities. 1595B. Barnes Spir. Sonn. in Farr S.P. Eliz. I. 51 Thou precious immolacion of mankinde! 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 291 That which is offered and consecrated by the Priest, is called a sacrifice,..a holy immolation.
2. fig. Devotion to destruction or severe loss for the sake of something else; ‘sacrifice’.
c1690Let. to Tillotson in Somers Tracts (1748) II. 243 Has not Mammon been made a God, and a Crown an Idol, to which the Prince of Orange and his Adherents have sacrific'd the Lives of many thousands of Men,..besides a vast Treasure, tho' it is not fit to be named after the other two Immolations? 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. viii. 186 Richelieu, by many an immolation, saved his country from intestine wars. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 334 This immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience. |