OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 10795

immolate

/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
inmolar • sacrificar
To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
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 log…
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 ga…
inmolar
To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
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 n…