What does immolate mean?

Definitions for immolate
ˈɪm əˌleɪtim·mo·late

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. immolateverb

    offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction

    "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"

GCIDE

  1. Immolateverb

    To destroy by fire.

Wiktionary

  1. immolateverb

    to kill as a sacrifice

  2. immolateverb

    to destroy, especially by fire

  3. Etymology: From immolo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To IMMOLATEverb

    To sacrifice; to kill in sacrifice.

    Etymology: immolo, Latin; immoler, French.

    These courtiers of applause being oftentimes reduced to live in want, these costly trifles so ingrossing all that they can spare, that they frequently enough are forced to immolate their own desires to their vanity. Boyle.

    Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine,
    Sacred to Neptune and the powers divine. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

ChatGPT

  1. immolate

    To immolate means to sacrifice something or someone, often by fire, as a religious offering. It can also refer to the act of killing, destroying, or severely harming oneself or another, often as a part of martyrdom or protest.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immolateverb

    to sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim

  2. Etymology: [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Immolate

    im′ō-lāt, v.t. to offer in sacrifice.—ns. Immolā′tion, act of immolating: a sacrifice; Imm′olator, one who immolates or offers sacrifice. [L. immolāre, -ātum, to sprinkle meal on a victim, hence to sacrifice—in, upon, mola, meal.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immolate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immolate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of immolate in a Sentence

  1. Marquis de Sade:

    Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  2. Steve Deace:

    He is clearly the man of the hour from a buzz standpoint, i think with one or two exceptions, the goal of the others is to get him to go from zany to crazy, to self-immolate.

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