Definition of sacrifice

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

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Sacrificant :: Sacrificant (n.) One who offers a sacrifice.
Sacrificer :: Sacrificer (n.) One who sacrifices.
Theorica :: Theorica (n. pl.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..
Molech :: Molech (n.) The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch..
Hieromancy :: Hieromancy (n.) Divination by observing the objects offered in 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..
Sacrificed :: Sacrificed (imp. & p. p.) of Sacrific.
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.].
Sacrificable :: Sacrificable (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice.
Magnanimity :: Magnanimity (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects..
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..
Immolation :: Immolation (n.) The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery..
Human :: Human (a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices..
Februation :: Februation (n.) Purification; a sacrifice.
Hecatomb :: Hecatomb (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite..
Protomartyr :: Protomartyr (n.) The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr..
Gambit :: Gambit (n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position..
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