immolate

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12
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15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/ (UK)
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/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/ (UK) · /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ (UK) · /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ (US)

Definition of immolate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
    “Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.”
    “A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.”
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verb

  1. To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
    “Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.”
    “A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.”
  2. To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
    “She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Immolated, sacrificed.

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Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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