| 单词 | to do, make sacrifice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do, make sacrifice a. Primarily, the slaughter of an animal (often including the subsequent consumption of it by fire) as an offering to God or a deity. Hence, in wider sense, the surrender to God or a deity, for the purpose of propitiation or homage, of some object of possession. Also applied figuratively to the offering of prayer, thanksgiving, penitence, submission, or the like. Phrases, †to do, make sacrifice; also, †to put in sacrifice, to devote as a sacrificial victim.In the primary use, a ‘sacrifice’ implies an ‘altar’ on which the victim is placed. Hence the figurative uses are often associated with references to a metaphorical altar. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [noun] ofleteeOE almousOE houselOE yieldOE lakeOE offeringOE offeranda1225 sacrificea1300 hosta1340 sacrifyingc1374 mannaa1382 incense1382 oblationc1425 hostie1483 obleya1500 sacrificy?c1510 immolation1534 offerture1537 offrage1548 mactation1563 offertory1596 sacrificing1601 litation1623 elibation1656 sacrification1694 sacrificature1779 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > action of or offering of bidding of prayersc1175 orison?c1250 bidding1297 prayerc1300 beads biddinga1325 sacrificec1595 presentation1597 pray1654 davening1947 a1300 Cursor Mundi 1064 And for his offrand was Rightwys, Godd tok to quen [read queme] his sacrifijs. c1300 St. Margarete 92 And wende to his false godes, to do sacrifise. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 187 Þer byeþ manie men..makeþ sacrefices naȝt to god. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 250 He let do make a riche feste With a sollempne Sacrifise In Phebus temple. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3142 Bot now es he asked,..Til godd til make of sacrifise. a1450 J. Myrc Festial 205 Then sawe Maudelen mony pepyll comyng towart þe tempyll and þe lorde of þat contre, forto haue don ofryng and sacrefise to hor mawmetys. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 151v By this edicte..many estrangers nobles and other were putte in sacrefice and had their blood shedde in egipte. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxv Ye sayd women called & entyced the iewes to theyr sacrifices. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 42 Wee did dailie aborde make sacrifice to God, in great devotion calling upon Him in hartie prayer for them. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 65 Their Sacrifices are never bloody. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Divines divide Sacrifices into Bloody, such as those of the Old Law; and Bloodless, such as those of the New Law. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 181 An altar for sacrifices to the immortal gods. 1876 J. P. Norris Rudim. Theol. ii. i. 147 Sin cannot be undone without Suffering; and we find Sacrifice instituted to give continual expression to it. < as lemmas |
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