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noun (English)
1. (religion)Examples: "They firſt vvaſh the dead body, paint him, clothe him, and ſo conueigh him to his Dormitorie, vvhich is ſpacious and neat, vvherein they bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and ſuch Treaſure, concluding their Ceremonies vvith Mimmicke geſtures and eiaculations: vvhich, vvith the Sacrifice of a Goat, vpon his Graue, puts a period to their Burials."; "[T]he Beaſts they offered in ſacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in VVorſhipping, vvere full of ſubmiſſion, and commemorative of benefits received, vvas according to reaſon, as proceeding from an intention to honour him [God]."; "[…] Moloch, horrid King beſmear'd with blood / Of human ſacrifice, and parents tears, / Though for the noyſe of Drums and Timbrels loud / Their childrens cries unheard, that paſt through fire / To his grim Idol."countableuncountable
2. (religion)Examples: "O th'inchaunting vvords of that baſe ſlaue, / Made him to thinke Epeus pine-tree Horſe [i.e., the Trojan Horse] / A ſacrifize t'appeaſe Mineruas vvrath: […]"; "Make of your Prayers one ſvveet Sacrifice, / And lift my Soule to Heauen."; "Does the mute Sacrifice upbraid the Prieſt? / He knovvs him not his Executioner."countableuncountable
3. (religion)Examples: "Let vs therfore by him [Jesus] offre allwayes vnto God the ſacrifice of prayſe: that is to ſaye, the frute of thoſe lippes which confeſſe his name."; "[W]e thy humble ſeruauntes […] entierely deſiryng thy fatherly goodnes, mercifully to accepte this our Sacrifice of praiſe and thankes geuing: […]"; "And they ſhall come […] bringing ſacrifices of praiſe vnto the houſe of the Lord."countablefigurativelyuncountable
4. (religion)countablespecificallyuncountable
5. (religion)Examples: "The pretensions of the holy see, the authority of tradition, purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, […] were copiously discussed."broadlycountablespecificallyuncountable
6. (figurative)Examples: "the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer"; "As rich ſhall Romeo by his Lady [Juliet] lie, / Poore Sacrifices to our Enmitie."; "The benefit vvhich a Soveraign beſtovveth on a Subject, […] are rather Sacrifices, vvhich the Soveraign (conſidered in his naturall perſon, and not in the perſon of the Common-vvealth) makes, for the appeaſing the diſcontent of him he thinks more potent than himſelfe; and encourage not to obedience, but on the contrary, to the continuance, and increaſing of further extortion."countablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "And there ſhall bee no leauened bread ſeene with thee in all thy coaſts ſeuen dayes, neither ſhall there any thing of the fleſh, which thou ſacrificedſt the firſt day at Euen, remaine all night, vntill the morning."; "[B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]"; "Their Funerals are theſe, they bring the dead corps neere to their Churches, vvhere they ſacrifice him to aſhes, in coſtly perfumes, in Aromatique Gummes and Spices."Synonyms: Molochise, Molochizetransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "Condemn'd to ſacrifice his childiſh Years / To babling Ign'rance, and to empty Fears; […]"; "Heaven chastises thee, Baharkan! Thou wast cruel, vindictive, and inexorable. With thee humanity had no value. Thou sacrificedst thy brethren on the slightest suspicion."broadlyfigurativelytransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer."; "Deuce take lady S⸺; and if I know D⸺y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred."; "[W]riters ſhould ceaſe from inteſtine hoſtilities; and, inſtead of ſacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert perſecution from the meaneſt of their fraternity."broadlyfigurativelytransitive
4. (transitive)broadlyfigurativelytransitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "A newspaper advertisement announces that "A professional gentleman is instructed to sacrifice Three young sound Horses at half their cost." We wonder what deity horses could be sacrificed to?"broadlydatedfigurativelyslangtransitive
6. (transitive)broadlyfigurativelytransitive
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