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Martyr :: Martyr (n.) Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause..

Victimate :: Victimate (v. t.) To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.

Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..

Propitiatory :: Propitiatory (a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice..

Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

Sacrificatory :: Sacrificatory (n.) Offering sacrifice.

Missa :: Missa (n.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Self-devotion :: Self-devotion (n.) The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self-devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice..

Aruspicy :: Aruspicy (n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Incruental :: Incruental (a.) Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice..

Levite :: Levite (n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep..

Sacrificer :: Sacrificer (n.) One who sacrifices.

Host :: Host (n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration..

Lustration :: Lustration (n.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified..

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..

Buy :: Buy (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain..

Victim :: Victim (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of..

Laborious :: Laborious (a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome..

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