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sacrificed

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vb. (en-past of: sacrifice )

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Sacrifice \Sac"ri*fice\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacrificed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sacrificing .] [From Sacrifice , n.: cf. F. sacrifier, L. sacrificare; sacer sacred, holy + -ficare (only in comp.) to make. See -fy .] To make an offering of; to consecrate ...

Usage examples of sacrificed.

She came in the night and took me into the jungle to a place where children were once sacrificed to the gods by my Aztec ancestors.

On this summit children had been sacrificed by the thousands to angry Aztecs.

The losing team members were sacrificed to the gods at the end of the game.

It is said that the warriors to be sacrificed not only went willingly but thought they were in the arms of the gods.

Warriors killed in battle, people who were sacrificed, and women who had died in childbirth shared the honor of residing in this wondrous place after death.

Stone tombs were constructed and filled with food, chocolate, and sacrificed wives and slaves.

As with warriors who die in battle and women who die in pregnancy, those sacrificed are paid the divine honor of living with the gods in the House of the Sun.

The sacrificed warriors and those who fell on the field of battle will go to the Eastern Heaven, a land filled with the honey of life, so my concern is for the survivors.

The greedy Toltecs sacrificed only a few prisoners, the wounded who would have died anyway.

They resented the way we sacrificed our prisoners to appease the gods rather than having them work our land and build our homes.

Instead, the goal was to capture warriors so they could be sacrificed and then honored by having their captors cook and eat their remains.

The traders had mentioned that little children were sacrificed to him because their tears looked like raindrops.

An india girl to be sacrificed was more clever than others who often not only went willingly but considered it a privilege.

She told the priests preparing her that if she was sacrificed she would tell the rain god not to let it rain.

I giggled aloud at the idea of telling the naualli that if I was sacrificed, I would tell the rain god not to let it rain.