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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

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.

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Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

immolate

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

Etymology 2 edit

Participle edit

immolate f pl

  1. feminine plural of immolato

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Participle edit

immolāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus