sacrifice

sustantivo

1. 1

   Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

   They firſt vvaſh the dead body, paint him, clothe him, and ſo conueigh him to his Dormitorie, vvhich is ſpacious and neat, vvherein they bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and ſuch Treaſure, concluding their Ceremonies vvith Mimmicke geſtures and eiaculations: vvhich, vvith the Sacrifice of a Goat, vpon his Graue, puts a period to their Burials.

   [T]he Beaſts they offered in ſacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in VVorſhipping, vvere full of ſubmiſſion, and commemorative of benefits received, vvas according to reaſon, as proceeding from an intention to honour him [God].

   […] Moloch, horrid King beſmear'd with blood / Of human ſacrifice, and parents tears, / Though for the noyſe of Drums and Timbrels loud / Their childrens cries unheard, that paſt through fire / To his grim Idol.

   This day the Philiſtines a popular Feaſt / Here celebrate in Gaza; and proclaim / Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praiſes loud / To Dagon, as their God vvho hath deliver'd / Thee Samſon bound and blind into thir hands, […]

2. 2

   A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.

   O th'inchaunting vvords of that baſe ſlaue, / Made him to thinke Epeus pine-tree Horſe [i.e., the Trojan Horse] / A ſacrifize t'appeaſe Mineruas vvrath: […]

   Make of your Prayers one ſvveet Sacrifice, / And lift my Soule to Heauen.

   Does the mute Sacrifice upbraid the Prieſt? / He knovvs him not his Executioner.

3. 3

   figuradoThe offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.

   Let vs therfore by him [Jesus] offre allwayes vnto God the ſacrifice of prayſe: that is to ſaye, the frute of thoſe lippes which confeſſe his name.

   [W]e thy humble ſeruauntes […] entierely deſiryng thy fatherly goodnes, mercifully to accepte this our Sacrifice of praiſe and thankes geuing: […]

   And they ſhall come […] bringing ſacrifices of praiſe vnto the houſe of the Lord.

4. 4

   Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.

5. 5

   The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering.

   The pretensions of the holy see, the authority of tradition, purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, […] were copiously discussed.

6. 6

   figuradoThe destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.

   the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer

   As rich ſhall Romeo by his Lady [Juliet] lie, / Poore Sacrifices to our Enmitie.

   The benefit vvhich a Soveraign beſtovveth on a Subject, […] are rather Sacrifices, vvhich the Soveraign (conſidered in his naturall perſon, and not in the perſon of the Common-vvealth) makes, for the appeaſing the diſcontent of him he thinks more potent than himſelfe; and encourage not to obedience, but on the contrary, to the continuance, and increaſing of further extortion.

   Ambition this ſhall tempt to riſe, / Then vvhirl the vvretch from high, / To bitter Scorn a ſacrifice, / And grinning Infamy.

7. 7

   figuradoIn full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

8. 8

   anticuadoA monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold.

   The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap like some drowned mariner's aboardship. Its patterns were Last Year's and going at a sacrifice, before its breath was gone. Its treasures were mere dirt, beside the riches of its unborn successor!

   [H]e bought a green shawl for Mrs. Bolton, and a yellow one for Fanny: the most brilliant "sacrifices" of a Regent-street haberdasher's window.

9. 9

   figuradoAn act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.

10. 10

    Variante de sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hitfiguradoEllipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).

verbo

1. 1

   To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.

   And there ſhall bee no leauened bread ſeene with thee in all thy coaſts ſeuen dayes, neither ſhall there any thing of the fleſh, which thou ſacrificedſt the firſt day at Euen, remaine all night, vntill the morning.

   [B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]

   Their Funerals are theſe, they bring the dead corps neere to their Churches, vvhere they ſacrifice him to aſhes, in coſtly perfumes, in Aromatique Gummes and Spices.

   [T]he Scripture vvith indignation, oft times makes mention of humane ſacrifice among the Gentiles, vvhoſe oblations ſcarce made ſcruple of any Animall, ſacrificing not onely man, but Horſes, Lyons, Ægles; […]

2. 2

   figuradoTo destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.

   Condemn'd to ſacrifice his childiſh Years / To babling Ign'rance, and to empty Fears; […]

   Heaven chastises thee, Baharkan! Thou wast cruel, vindictive, and inexorable. With thee humanity had no value. Thou sacrificedst thy brethren on the slightest suspicion.

3. 3

   figuradoTo destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.

   Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.

   Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.

   [W]riters ſhould ceaſe from inteſtine hoſtilities; and, inſtead of ſacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert perſecution from the meaneſt of their fraternity.

   Could it then be doubted that, if the Churchmen would even now comply with his wishes, he would willingly sacrifice the Puritans?

4. 4

   figuradoOf a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.

5. 5

   anticuadoTo sell (something) at less than its value, thus incurring a monetary loss.

   A newspaper advertisement announces that "A professional gentleman is instructed to sacrifice Three young sound Horses at half their cost." We wonder what deity horses could be sacrificed to?

6. 6

   figuradoTo intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.

7. 7

   To offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.

   All things come alike to all: there is one euent to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the cleane, and to the vncleane; to him that ſacrificeth, and to him that ſacrificeth not: as is the good, ſo is the ſinner, and hee that ſweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

   Like a coy maiden, eaſe, vvhen courted moſt, / Fartheſt retires—an idol, at vvhoſe ſhrine / VVho oft'neſt ſacrifice are favor'd leaſt.

   [T]he sailors tremblingly / Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow, / Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow, / And sacrifice with snow-white lambs, […]

   If, therefore, because of money thou praisest God, not voluntarily thou sacrificest to God, but out of necessity thou sacrificest: because, beside Him, something else has thy love.

8. 8

   figuradoOf a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.

9. 9

   figuradoTo make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

10. 10

    figuradoTo celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.

Formas

plural

sacrifices

pasado

sacrificed

participio

sacrificed

gerundio

sacrificing

3.ª persona del singular

sacrifices