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 Translation for 'sacrifice' from English to Latin
NOUN1   a sacrifice | sacrifices
NOUN2   sacrifice | -
VERB   to sacrifice | sacrificed | sacrificed
sacrificing | sacrifices
SYNO forfeit | forfeiture | ritual killing | ...
mactare [1]to sacrifice
sacrum {n}sacrifice
sacrificium {n}sacrifice
relig.
mactare [1]
to offer sacrifice
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Usage Examples English
  • Human sacrifice (sometimes called ritual murder), has been practiced on a number of different occasions and in many different cultures.
  • 2. Sacrifice of three pregnant sows to Trebos Iovios behind the Trebulan gate: the prayers used in the first sacrifice are to be repeated.
  • The Eucharist is a renewal of the sacrifice on the cross.
  • Criticism of burial rites is a common aspersion by competing religions and cultures, including the association of cremation with fire sacrifice or human sacrifice.
  • In the world of "Hibiki's Magic", in order to gain magic one must make a sacrifice.

  • To sacrifice bunt, the process would be the same as for stealing, except that the sacrifice bunting chart would be used.
  • Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter stands in stark contrast to the Binding of Isaac in the Book of Genesis, in which Abraham was about to perform a divinely ordered sacrifice of his son, when an angel of God directly intervened and stopped the sacrifice.
  • Huitzilopochtli, a Mesoamerican deity associated with human sacrifice, is mentioned, indicating that Juan Romero's transition may have been related to a sacrifice ritual.
  • Some offer their wealth as a sacrifice, while others offer severe austerities as a sacrifice.
  • Robert Green Ingersoll suggests that the concept of the atonement is simply an extension of the Mosaic tradition of blood sacrifice and "is the enemy of morality".

  • The Śrauta Agnihotra sacrifice thus evolved into Prana-Agnihotra sacrifice concept.
  • McInnis also excelled in moving runners ahead with sacrifice hits. His career total of 384 sacrifice hits is third best in MLB history.
  • The lustration was originally a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors in the name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census.
  • In chess, the Greek gift sacrifice, also known as the classical bishop sacrifice, is a typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+ or Black playing Bxh2+ at some point after the opponent has castled kingside.
  • He wrote "Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism", a monograph on the origins of religious sacrifice translated into French in 1955.

  • A sacrifice zone or sacrifice area (often termed a national sacrifice zone or national sacrifice area) is a geographic area that has been permanently impaired by heavy environmental alterations or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use (LULU).
  • One of the rituals of the Pawnees during the spring planting season to ensure the fertility of the soil was the Morning Star ceremony and the ritual sacrifice of a young girl captured from an enemy tribe.
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