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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).
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).
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.1957 December 14, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840:
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.1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden:
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.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| immolating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| immolated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| immolated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| immolates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
immolatory · self-immolation · self-immolate
fi polttaa (destroy) · bo དམར་མཆོད་བྱེད་པ (kill as sacrifice) · nl offeren (kill as sacrifice) · ro sacrifica (kill as sacrifice) · pt sacrificar (kill as sacrifice) · pt imolar (destroy) · fi uhrata (kill as sacrifice) · nl vernietigen (destroy) · fr sacrifier (kill as sacrifice) · es inmolar (destroy) · hy զոհաբերել (kill as sacrifice) · ar ذَبَحَ (kill as sacrifice) · uk прино́сити в же́ртву (kill as sacrifice) · de opfern (kill as sacrifice) · ru сжига́ть (destroy) · fr immoler (kill as sacrifice) · it sacrificare (kill as sacrifice) · hy զենել (kill as sacrifice) · it immolare (kill as sacrifice) · sv offra (kill as sacrifice) · hy ողջակիզել (destroy) · fi tuhota (destroy) · es inmolar (kill as sacrifice) · pt imolar (kill as sacrifice) · ca immolar (destroy) · vi tự thiêu (kill as sacrifice) · ro imola (kill as sacrifice) · ru приноси́ть в жертву (kill as sacrifice) · bg принасям в жертва (kill as sacrifice) · es sacrificar (kill as sacrifice) · ca immolar (kill as sacrifice) · ca sacrificar (kill as sacrifice) · ru соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние (kill as sacrifice) · de zerstören (destroy) · fr immoler (destroy) · nb ofre (kill as sacrifice)