immolate

The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

• (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 by burning.
   • 1957 December, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840:

     Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.

   • 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 kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →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 was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.

• immolation

immolate (not comparable)

1. (used as a participle, obsolete) Immolated, sacrificed.

• ammolite

• IPA^(key): /im.moˈla.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: im‧mo‧là‧te

immolate

1. inflection of immolare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

immolate f pl

1. feminine plural of immolato

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.mɔˈɫaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.moˈlaː.te]

immolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus