immolate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction
    • The Aztecs immolated human victims
    • immolate the valuables at the temple

WordNet

Im"mo*late transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Immolated ; present participle & verbal noun Immolating
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913