English-Thai Dictionary

immolate

VT บูชายัญ (คำ ทางการ  ฆ่า คน หรือ สัตว์ เพื่อ เซ่นไหว้  offer worship sacrifice bu-cha-yan

 

immolate

VT เผา ตัว ตาย เพื่อ ประท้วง (คำ ทางการ  sacrifice pao-tua-tai-puea-pra-tuang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMMOLATE

v.t.[L. immolo, to sacrifice; in and mola, meal sprinkled with salt, which was thrown on the head of the victim. ] 1. To sacrifice; to kill, as a victim offered in sacrifice.
2. To offer in sacrifice.
Now immolate the tongues and mix the wine.

 

IMMOLATED

pp. Sacrificed; offered in sacrifice. From the same altar on which the small states shall be immolated, will rise the smoke of sacrificed liberty, and despotism must be the dreadful successor.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMMOLATE

Im "mo *late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n.Immolating. ] Etym: [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. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

immolate

im mo late |ˈiməˌlāt ˈɪməˌleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] kill or offer as a sacrifice, esp. by burning. DERIVATIVES im mo la tion |ˌiməˈlāSHən |noun, im mo la tor |-ˌlātər |noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin immolat- ‘sprinkled with sacrificial meal, ’ from the verb immolare, from in- ‘upon ’ + mola ‘meal. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

immolate

immolate |ˈɪməleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning. DERIVATIVES immolation |-ˈleɪʃ (ə )n |noun, immolator noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English ) as immolation ): from Latin immolat- ‘sprinkled with sacrificial meal ’, from the verb immolare, from in- ‘upon ’ + mola ‘meal ’.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

immolate

immolate verb in the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine: sacrifice, offer up, offer as a sacrifice, kill as a sacrifice; kill, slaughter, burn.