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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immolate \Im"mo*late\, v. t. [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 {Molar}, {Meal} 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
immolate
v : offer as a sacrifice by killing
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