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immolation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a sacrificing" (originally especially with reference to Christ), from Middle French immolation (13c.) or directly from Latin immolationem (nominative immolatio ) "a sacrificing," noun of action from past participle stem of immolare (see immolate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immolation may refer to: Death by burning Self-immolation , the act of sacrificing oneself Immolation (band) , a death metal band from Yonkers, New York Dance Dance Immolation , an interactive performance piece using a modified Dance Dance Revolution
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immolation \Im`mo*la"tion\, n. [L. immolatio: cf. F. immolation.] The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. --Sir. T. Browne. That which is immolated; a sacrifice. Destruction by fire.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. killing or offering as a sacrifice
Usage examples of immolation.
Rattled by the drumroll concussion, shaken bone from bone by the booming reports as the hills rocked and slammed under punishment, Jieret scarcely knew whether the crossbolt ripped over his head, or if wood, feather, and forge-sharpened steel had been reduced by instantaneous immolation.
Lady Fate Casino was almost empty, but the gaming tables were crowded with people celebrating their good fortune in escaping immolation - perhaps the longest shot any oddsmaker had ever posted.
He had intended using the oilcan in his hand to control the spread of the flames so that the fugitive would believe his helpless host in immediate danger of immolation.
He was watching the immolation of pockets of reserved fuel, each one blasting past the reformatted hull, burning off swaths of philosopher cells, torching all the information they contained.
Attempts to trace the matrix of the samizdat without viewing it from induction on postal codes, e-micros-copíes on the brown padded mailers, immolation and chromatography on the unlabelled cartridge-cases, extensive and maddening interviews of those civilians exposed place the likely dissemination-point someplace along the U.
After he concluded that the Apostles' Creed could not on grammatical grounds have actually been written by the Twelve Apostles, the Inquisition declared him a heretic, and only the intervention of his patron, Alfonso, King of Naples, prevented his immolation.
The suicides, the immolations and the feat of Colonel Ito at Port Arthur had all stemmed from this sense of obedience, and the reason that reciters came from Tokyo to such remote areas as Kauai was that the Imperial government wanted to remind all Japanese of their undying loyalty to superiors, in this case the emperor and his army.
The friars, apprised by us of the pagan interments and sinfully suicidal immolations of live volunteers at that place, forced the wizard to allow them access to those crypts.
The girl had abandoned herself to grief and suddenly Helva was immeasurably irritated with this immolation in self-pity.
In the inner core, near the great machines that controlled the immolation of the antimatter that gave power, the normals slept, stacked into the hibernation chambers like sardines in a can.
Hellenistic sculpture has popularised the scene of the immolation of a bull by Mithra, wearing a Phrygian cap, in one of those grottoes where the initiates gathered.
Messages came through, some of them urgent, some tempting enough, Piemur would have thought, for one of the apprentices to repeat, but no whisper of rumor repaid his immolation.
Then it would rouse itself for one final frantic spell of recording and transmission before plunging to its immolation in the turbulent supernova remnant of Alpha Centauri.