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Immolate

verb

(past & past part. immolated; pres. part. immolating)

Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction. "Immolate the valuables at the temple"

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"Immolate" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'young friends' to 'executioners,' who fleece them for the common benefit of the confederates. They do not always wait for the coming of age of their young dupes in order to strike the grand 'stroke.' When they find that the father of a family shudders at the idea of a public scandal, they immolate their victim at once—for fear lest he should escape from their hands. Of course they are always open to 'capitulate'—to come to terms; and if the aid of the law is ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... some, and the malicious ultraism of others, during her visit to Paris in 1829-30. "There are certain characters," observes M. Jouy, "who may be considered as the scourges of whatever is ridiculous (les fleaux du ridicule;) they discover it under whatever form it may be hid, and pitilessly immolate it with the weapon of irony," and into the hands of persons of this merciless tribe she seems to have been perpetually falling. We must content ourselves, however, with referring to but one example more; a conversation between herself and a young Frenchman, ...

— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... Vereker, is somewhat overpowering, such magnanimity I find vastly touching. But Diana, I am assured, had no idea of permitting you thus to immolate yourself on the altar ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

Words linked to "Immolate" : sacrifice, immolation