- (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God or to a divinity; an immolated victim or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement or conciliation.
- (n.) To destroy; to kill.
- (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure or of pleasure to interest.
- (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.i.) To make offerings to God or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The offering of anything to God or to a god; consecratory rite.
- (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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