Word Meanings - VICTIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. Bullokar.
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- IMMOLATE
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. - SACRIFICE
1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid - SACRIFICER
One who sacrifices. - VICTIMATE
To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. Bullokar. - VICTIMIZE
To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat. - VICTIM
1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of. Led like a victim, to my death I'll go. Dryden. 2. A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of - SELF-SACRIFICE
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.