Word Meanings - IMMOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Additional info about word: 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. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMMOLATE)
- Kill
- Slay
- murder
- assassinate
- destroy
- slaughter
- butcher
- immolate
- massacre
- deaden
- put to death
- despatch
- Sacrifice Offer
- surrender
- forego
Related words: (words related to IMMOLATE)
- 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. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - OFFER
ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - BUTCHERING
1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. - OFFERER
One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker. - BUTCHER'S BROOM
A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - 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 - BUTCHERLY
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. - DEATHWATCH
A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, - OFFERTURE
Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton. - FOREGO
1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, - DEADEN
Etym: 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its - OFFERTORY
1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to - MURDER
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, - DEATHWARD
Toward death. - SURRENDER
To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - SELF-MURDER
Suicide. - PROFFER
forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou