immolate

Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (past participle immolātus).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/

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immolate (third-person singular simple present immolates, present participle immolating, simple past and past participle immolated)

1. To kill as a sacrifice.
   • 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.

2. To destroy, especially by fire.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:

     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 was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.

• self-immolate, self-immolation

• ammolite

• IPA^(key): [im.moˈlaː.t̪e], /immoˈlate/

immolate

1. second-person plural present indicative of immolare
2. second-person plural imperative of immolare
3. feminine plural of immolato

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈlaː.te/, [ɪm.mɔˈɫaː.tɛ]

immolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus