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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

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

ground grain.]

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.

Verb.

[L. immolo, to sacrifice; in and mola,meal sprinkled with salt, which was thrown on the head of the victim.]

To sacrifice; to kill, as a victim offered in sacrifice.

To offer in sacrifice.

Now immolate the tongues and mix the wine.