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Definition of sacrifice
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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..
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Sacrifice
::
Sacrifice
(n.)
Destruction
or
surrender
of
anything
for the sake of
something
else;
devotion
of some
desirable
object
in
behalf
of a
higher
object,
or to a claim
deemed
more
pressing;
hence,
also, the thing so
devoted
or given up; as, the
sacrifice
of
interest
to
pleasure,
or of
pleasure
to
interest..
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..
Protomartyr
::
Protomartyr
(n.) The first
martyr;
the first who
suffers,
or is
sacrificed,
in any
cause;
--
applied
esp. to
Stephen,
the first
Christian
martyr..
Gehenna
::
Gehenna
(n.) The
valley
of
Hinnom,
near
Jerusalem,
where some of the
Israelites
sacrificed
their
children
to
Moloch,
which,
on this
account,
was
afterward
regarded
as a place of
abomination,
and made a
receptacle
for all the
refuse
of the city,
perpetual
fires being kept up in order to
prevent
pestilential
effluvia.
In the New
Testament
the name is
transferred,
by an easy
metaphor,
to
Hell..
Sacrifice
::
Sacrifice
(v. i.) To make
offerings
to God, or to a
deity,
of
things
consumed
on the
altar;
to offer
sacrifice..
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..
Purchase
::
Purchase
(v. t.) To
obtain
by any
outlay,
as of
labor,
danger,
or
sacrifice,
etc.; as, to
purchase
favor with
flattery..
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..
Vicarious
::
Vicarious
(prep.)
Performed
of
suffered
in the place of
another;
substituted;
as, a
vicarious
sacrifice;
vicarious
punishment..
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..
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..
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.].
Remunerate
::
Remunerate
(v. t.) To pay an
equivalent
to for any
service,
loss,
expense,
or other
sacrifice;
to
recompense;
to
requite;
as, to
remunerate
men for
labor..
Moloch
::
Moloch
(n.) The fire god of the
Ammonites
in
Canaan,
to whom human
sacrifices
were
offered;
Molech.
Also
applied
figuratively..
Sacrificant
::
Sacrificant
(n.) One who
offers
a
sacrifice.
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..
Tephramancy
::
Tephramancy
(n.)
Divination
by the ashes of the altar on which a
victim
had been
consumed
in
sacrifice.
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..
Quixotism
::
Quixotism
(n.) That form of
delusion
which leads to
extravagant
and
absurd
undertakings
or
sacrifices
in
obedience
to a
morbidly
romantic
ideal of duty or
honor,
as
illustrated
by the
exploits
of Don
Quixote
in
knight-errantry..
Sacrificial
::
Sacrificial
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to
sacrifice
or
sacrifices;
consisting
in
sacrifice;
performing
sacrifice.
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