immolate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Verb

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 kill or destroy, especially 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.

Derived terms

• self-immolate, self-immolation

Related terms

• immolation

Translations

Anagrams

• ammolite

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

immolate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

immolate f pl

1. feminine plural of immolato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈlaː.te/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈla.te/,

Participle

immolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus