immolate

How To Use immolate In A Sentence

• Historically, the word immolate had been used by Fathers and theologians of the Church to refer to the eucharist as a commemoration of the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ. Reformation Theology
• In the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that.
• The dozen or more protesters that self-immolated in Egypt didn't do it for the tweets. Dave Pell: Egypt, Twitter and the Straw Man Revolution
• No matter what the LAS configuration, would an Orion in a sidemount Shuttle configuration stand any chance at all of surviving a Challenger-type accident where the ET gets immolated almost immediately? Downplaying Internal Doubts About Ares - NASA Watch
• For just as he is still daily immolated in a mystical manner whilst we show forth his death upon the altar, so also does he seem to be newly born whilst we annually commemorate his nativity.
• But today we do so without risk of being immolated, and with the newfound knowledge that life is hardy, and that the habitable zone may be as large as the universe itself.
• To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
• It continued to burn, seeming to immolate his very soul.
• The Aztecs immolated human victims
• To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.