Crossword clues for immolate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immolate \Im"mo*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.] [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]
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To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women.
--Boyle. To destroy by fire.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to sacrifice, kill as a victim," from Latin immolatus, past participle of immolare "to sacrifice," originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + mola (salsa) "(sacrificial) meal," related to molere "to grind" (see mallet). Related: Immolated; immolating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To kill as a sacrifice. 2 To destroy, especially by fire.
WordNet
v. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"
Usage examples of "immolate".
But dozens slid through the latticelike intricacies of her point defense lasers and immolated themselves against her drive field in fireballs which gouged at her gargantuan hull.
In the islands of Chios and Tenedos, his death was represented by the sacrifice of a man, actually immolated.
Hadrian prohibited these Mysteries, on account of the cruel scenes represented in their ceremonial: for human victims were immolated therein, and the events of futurity looked for in their palpitating entrails.
I was prevented by my unfortunate condition from immolating the victim on the altar of love, so we confined ourselves to a make-believe combat which only lasted a minute.
Below banks of panicked clouds, smoke chimneyed from immolated cities and billowed from tracts of firestormed evergreen forests.
A constant stream of night-insects spiralled it like elyctrons, finding their occasional way through a crack in the glass and immolating themselves in its light with a little combustive burst.
There was no way to tell which acts of plunder had been prompted by the charity-lust of the Lawsons and which by the gluttony of Cuffy Meigs—no way to tell which communities had been immolated to feed another community one week closer to starvation and which to provide yachts for the pull-peddlers.
The Israelis, surrounded by countries that had every reason to see the Jewish state immolated, had elevated paranoia to an art form, and national security to an obsession.
The plasma from the immolated straws pounded inward towards the second reservoir of lithium compounds.
The after-action debriefs showed that the camp guards had been immolated in moments.
All of the internal organs had either been immolated or simply pulled down by gravity.
He didn't know that the first salvo had inadvertently immolated the command bunker for the radar complex.
Nothgrin wheeled toward the immolated creatures, to see two more join them, bursting into flame like dry sticks.
It immolated the demon where he stood, and those around it were blasted from their feet, falling like hot coals in the snow.
The front rows of demons were immolated, reduced to no more than ash in an instant, while others struggled to pull out their weapons, to ready their own spells, to flee the field.