Borrowed fromLatinimmolō(“I sacrifice”) (past participleimmolātus).
immolate (third-person singular simple presentimmolates,present participleimmolating,simple past and past participleimmolated)
- To kill as asacrifice.
1978, A.S. Byatt,The Virgin in the Garden:A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets,immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
- To kill ordestroy, especially by fire.
1847 January –1848 July,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, inVanity Fair […], London:Bradbury and Evans […], published1848,→OCLC:She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue wasimmolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
- IPA(key): /im.moˈla.te/
- Rhymes:-ate
- Hyphenation:im‧mo‧là‧te
immolate
- inflection ofimmolare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
immolate f pl
- feminineplural ofimmolato
immolāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofimmolātus
