immolate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (past participle immolātus).
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file)
Verb
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- To kill as a sacrifice.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
- A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
- To destroy, especially by fire.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:
- She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:
Derived terms
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Translations
kill as sacrifice
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destroy
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
immolate
- second-person plural present indicative of immolare
- second-person plural imperative of immolare
- feminine plural of immolato
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /im.moˈlaː.te/, [ɪmːɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.moˈla.te/, [imːoˈläːt̪e]
Participle
(deprecated template usage) immolāte
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