单词 | immolate |
释义 | † immolateadj. Obsolete or archaic. Sacrificed, immolated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [adjective] > sacrificed offeredOE immolate1534 immolated1548 sacrificed1597 offertory1641 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1296/1 The nyght..wher in was immolate and offered in sacryfyce the vnspotted lambe. 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 148 Whether christ be daily imolate or only ones. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai iii. 32 Nor were unconsumed The reeking victims immolate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). immolatev. 1. a. transitive. To sacrifice, offer in sacrifice; to kill as a victim. (Properly, and now only, of sacrifices in which life is taken.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)] offereOE teemc1275 sacrea1325 sacrify1390 sacrificea1400 presentc1425 exhibit1490 immolate1548 immole1610 shrine?1611 victim1671 victimize1853 oblate1872 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. viv As though he should be a dewe sacrifice or an host immolated for the..homicide. 1619 H. Hutton Compend. Hist. Ixion's Wheele in Follie's Anat. sig. D3v Pan did the first fruites of his fold present..Ceres did immolate..Autumn's rich Prime, and Terra's golden mines. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 126 They will cut themselves to immolate the bloud to their Idol. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 327 The horrible custom of immolating the captives of war at the tombs of those who had been slain in battle. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. v. 110 Human victims were immolated to the Thunderer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (intransitive)] offereOE sacrificec1290 sacrifya1325 immolate1628 1628 J. Hume Jewes Deliv. i. 10 They were wont to immolate and sacrifice vnto their heathenish Gods. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 15 In a certain place there, the Marabouts immolate at this time. 2. transitive and figurative. To give up to destruction, or to severe suffering or loss, for the sake of something else; to ‘sacrifice’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > sacrifice for sake of higher claim givea1240 immolate1634 sacrifice1706 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to > for the sake of something else or immolate immolate1634 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 91 Should I immolate my selfe to publique scorne. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. sig. Mm2v To immolate their own inclinations and desires..to their Vanity. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 278 They had offered to immolate at the same shrine the most valuable of the national acquisitions. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist v. i. 306 The religion of Christ never immolates the Church at the Shrine of the priesthood. Derivatives ˈimmolated adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [adjective] > sacrificed offeredOE immolate1534 immolated1548 sacrificed1597 offertory1641 1548 [see sense 1a]. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 145 In vain your immolated Bulls are slain. ˈimmolating adj. ΚΠ 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 139 His [Jesus'] voluntary..spirit..becomes officiating priest, and strikes his own person with immolating blow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1534v.1548 |
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