Definition of sacrifice

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Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..

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Sacrificator :: Sacrificator (n.) A sacrificer; one who offers a sacrifice.
Sacrificant :: Sacrificant (n.) One who offers a sacrifice.
Sacrificatory :: Sacrificatory (n.) Offering sacrifice.
Sacrificable :: Sacrificable (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice.
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..
Sacrifical :: Sacrifical (a.) Employed in sacrifice.
Ritual :: Ritual (a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To destroy; to kill.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite..
Sacrificial :: Sacrificial (a.) Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.
Mass :: Mass (n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host..
Aliturgical :: Aliturgical (a.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering..
Crithomancu :: Crithomancu (n.) A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims..
Self-sacrifice :: Self-sacrifice (n.) The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion..
Passover :: Passover (n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Molech :: Molech (n.) The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch..
Expiatory :: Expiatory (a.) Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..
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