sacrifice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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religion
sports
Etymology: From Middle English sacrificen (“to offer a sacrifice to a deity”), from sacrifice (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).
Inflected forms:
form: sacrifices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sacrificing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sacrificest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sacrificedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sacrifices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sacrificeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: sacrifice
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: sacrificing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sacrificed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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; […]
[I]f they ſacrifice their Enemies it is not neceſſary they ſhould eat them too. After all, I vvill not be peremptory in the Negative, but I ſpeak as to the compaſs of my ovvn knovvledge, and knovv ſome of theſe Cannibal ſtories to be falſe, and many of them have been diſproved ſince I firſt vvent to the VVeſt Indies.
gloss: To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: 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?
The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum, and even straitened the resources by which he was to carry out his architectural schemes, for the sake of removing the entail from his estate, and making this boy his heir—[…]
From the pangs of grief thou shalt then be again released, / When thou sacrificest thine own affections, O my heart!
[H]e dresses well, but there is perfect freedom about his dress. He is too much an artist to sacrifice himself to his clothes.
And I know by what you have just said that you're on the wrong road to success. It isn't got at by sacrificing other people,—I've had that much knocked into me; you must sacrifice yourself, and live under orders, and never think for yourself, and never have real satisfaction in your work except just at the beginning, when you're reaching out after a notion.
To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.
Don't you break my heart / 'Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.
That is why God sacrificed His only begotten Son [Jesus]: so our incalculable debt of sin could be paid in full.
Tali: The Admiralty Board believed the information here was worth sacrificing all our lives for. I have to believe that they know what's best.
gloss: Of 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.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To sell (something) at less than its value, thus incurring a monetary loss.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
dated
figuratively
slang
transitive
examples: 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?
gloss: To intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Of 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.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To 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.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
examples: For what power but God's can make good the promise of tendering the Body and Blood of Christ, as a visible mean^([sic]) to convey His Spirit? And he that goes about to make this change by consecrating the eucharist, must needs be understood to acknowledge this power of God's; but this is not that acknowledgment, which sacrificing importeth, but that, which every act of religion implieth. He that sacrificeth, acknowledging that which he sacrificeth, with all that he hath, to [come from or belong to]^([sic]) God, to testify this acknowledgment, abandoneth that which he sacrificeth to be destroyed in testimony of it.
Related words: nonsacrificial
sacred
sacrificial
sacrificially
sacrificialness
Derived words: resacrifice
sacrificable
sacrificeable
sacrificed
sacrificer
sacrificing
sacrificingly
self-sacrifice
self-sacrificing
unsacrificeable
unsacrificed
unsacrificing
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: flijoj
lang: Arabic
word: ضَحَّى
roman: ḍaḥḥā
lang: Armenian
word: զոհաբերել
roman: zohaberel
lang: Armenian
word: զոհել
roman: zohel
lang: Asturian
word: sacrificar
lang: Belarusian
word: ахвяро́ўваць
roman: axvjarówvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: ахвярава́ць
roman: axvjaravácʹ
lang: Bengali
word: বলিদান করা
roman: bolidan kora
lang: Bengali
word: কুরবান করা
roman: kurban kora
lang: Bulgarian
word: принасям в жертва
roman: prinasjam v žertva
lang: Catalan
word: sacrificar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 祭獻 /祭献
roman: jìxiàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 犧牲 /牺牲
roman: xīshēng
lang: Czech
word: obětovat
lang: Danish
word: ofre
lang: Dutch
word: offeren
lang: Egyptian
word: R4:t*p
roman: ḥtp
lang: Esperanto
word: oferi
lang: Estonian
word: ohverdama
lang: Faroese
word: bjóða
lang: Faroese
word: geva gávu
lang: Finnish
word: uhrata
lang: French
word: sacrifier
lang: Galician
word: sacrificar
lang: Georgian
word: შეწირვა
roman: šec̣irva
lang: Georgian
word: მსხვერპლშეწირვა
roman: msxverṗlšec̣irva
lang: German
word: opfern
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽
roman: gasaljan
lang: Greek
word: θυσιάζω
roman: thysiázo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θύω
roman: thúō
lang: Hebrew
word: הקריב
roman: hikrív
lang: Hindi
word: क़ुरबान करना
roman: qurbān karnā
lang: Hungarian
word: feláldoz
lang: Icelandic
word: fórna
lang: Icelandic
word: gefa til
lang: Ido
word: sakrifikar
lang: Italian
word: sacrificare
lang: Japanese
word: 捧げる
roman: sasageru
lang: Japanese
word: 犠牲にする
roman: gisei ni suru
lang: Khmer
word: ហ័វ
roman: haw
lang: Khmer
word: ពលី
roman: pĕəʼlii
lang: Khmer
word: បូជា
roman: bouciə
lang: Khmer
word: សែន
roman: saen
lang: Korean
word: 희생(犧牲)하다
roman: huisaenghada
lang: Central Kurdish
word: قوربان کردن
roman: qurban kirdin
lang: Lao
word: ພະລີ
roman: pha lī
lang: Lao
word: ບູຊາ
roman: bū sā
lang: Latin
word: sacrificō
lang: Latin
word: condono
lang: Latvian
word: upurēt
lang: Latvian
word: ziedot
lang: Māori
word: raupanga
lang: Māori
word: whakahere
lang: Mongolian
word: тахил өргөх
roman: taxil örgöx
lang: Mongolian
word: тахих
roman: taxix
lang: Norwegian
word: ofre
lang: Old English
word: blōtan
lang: Old English
word: offrian
lang: Polish
word: ofiarować
lang: Polish
word: złożyć w ofierze
lang: Portuguese
word: sacrificar
lang: Punjabi
word: ਵਾਰਨਾ
roman: vārnā
lang: Punjabi
word: وارنا
roman: vārnā
lang: Romanian
word: sacrifica
lang: Romanian
word: jertfi
lang: Russian
word: же́ртвовать
roman: žértvovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: поже́ртвовать
roman: požértvovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: приноси́ть в же́ртву
roman: prinosítʹ v žértvu
lang: Russian
word: принести́ в же́ртву
roman: prinestí v žértvu
lang: Sanskrit
word: यजति
roman: yajati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жртвовати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žrtvovati
lang: Slovak
word: obetovať
lang: Slovak
word: obetovať sa
lang: Slovene
word: žrtvovati
lang: Spanish
word: sacrificar
lang: Swahili
word: kuchinja
lang: Swedish
word: offra
lang: Thai
word: พลี
roman: pá-lii
lang: Thai
word: บูชา
roman: buu-chaa
lang: Turkish
word: kurban etmek
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎄𐎁𐎈
roman: dbḥ
lang: Ukrainian
word: же́ртвувати
roman: žértvuvaty
lang: Vietnamese
word: tế
lang: Vietnamese
word: cúng tế
lang: Vietnamese
word: hiến tế
lang: Walloon
word: ofri
lang: Walloon
word: sacrifyî
lang: Welsh
word: aberthu