Definition of sacrifice

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Sacrifice (n.) To destroy; to kill.

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Orgies :: Orgies (n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry..
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..
Shintiism :: Shintiism (n.) One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes..
Vacuna :: Vacuna (n.) The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines..
Incruental :: Incruental (a.) Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice..
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..
Life :: Life (n.) A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed..
Sacrificable :: Sacrificable (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To destroy; to kill.
Self-denial :: Self-denial (n.) The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition..
Sacrificer :: Sacrificer (n.) One who sacrifices.
Immolate :: Immolate (v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim..
Sin :: Sin (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..
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..
Verbenate :: Verbenate (v. t.) To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites..
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..
Self-abnegation :: Self-abnegation (n.) Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
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