Crossword clues for sacrificing
sacrificing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid.
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Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
Condemned to sacrifice his childish years To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
--Prior.The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum . . . for the sake of . . . making this boy his heir.
--G. Eliot. To destroy; to kill.
--Johnson.To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of sacrifice English)
Usage examples of "sacrificing".
If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?
Even as I lie dying, I can hear the victors below sacrificing Mexica prisoners that they captured.
He had discovered, from intercepted letters, that his adversary, sacrificing the interest of the state to that of the monarch, had again excited the Barbarians to invade the provinces of the West.
But instead of sacrificing these unworthy passions to the dictates of generosity and prudence, Theudes amused the ambassadors till he was secretly informed of the loss of Carthage, and then dismissed them with obscure and contemptuous advice, to seek in their native country a true knowledge of the state of the Vandals.
Jane is accused by the gravest historians of sacrificing to her ambition the life of an unfortunate father.
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
I say, suggested itself to her, that by sacrificing Sophia and all her secrets to Mr.
Yuuzhan Vong are merely passing through, destroying worlds and sacrificing populations on a whim?
He was filled with horror at the vision of a maddened humanity, sacrificing its most precious treasures, strength, and genius, its highest virtues, to the bestial idol of war.
These kill, sacrificing themselves and others, but at least they know what they do.
Parties, sacrificing their very reason for existence to the absurd fetish of abstract unity.
You are both surrounded with enemies who are sacrificing you to their own interests.
As soon as Agrippina heard about it she hurried to the Palace and by chance found Tiberius sacrificing to Augustus.
His ultimate weakness in the nullification matter, his opposition to internal improvements, his policy of sacrificing the public lands to individual speculators, his warfare against the Bank of the United States conducted by methods the most unjustifiable, the transaction of the removal of the deposits so disreputable and injurious in all its details, the importation of Mrs.
This character of the Cyclopians arose from the cruel custom of sacrificing strangers, whom fortune brought upon their coast.