sacrificenoun詞源 1/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/

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  lifestylereligionOriginally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

  • They firſt vvaſh the dead body, paint him, clothe him, and ſo conueigh him to his Dormitorie, vvhich is ſpacious and neat, vvherein they bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and ſuch Treaſure, concluding their Ceremonies vvith Mimmicke geſtures and eiaculations: vvhich, vvith the Sacrifice of a Goat, vpon his Graue, puts a period to their Burials.
  • [T]he Beaſts they offered in ſacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in VVorſhipping, vvere full of ſubmiſſion, and commemorative of benefits received, vvas according to reaſon, as proceeding from an intention to honour him [God].
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  lifestylereligionA human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.

  • O th'inchaunting vvords of that baſe ſlaue, / Made him to thinke Epeus pine-tree Horſe [i.e., the Trojan Horse] / A ſacrifize t'appeaſe Mineruas vvrath: […]
  • Make of your Prayers one ſvveet Sacrifice, / And lift my Soule to Heauen.
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  lifestylereligionThe offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.

  • Let vs therfore by him [Jesus] offre allwayes vnto God the ſacrifice of prayſe: that is to ſaye, the frute of thoſe lippes which confeſſe his name.
  • [W]e thy humble ſeruauntes […] entierely deſiryng thy fatherly goodnes, mercifully to accepte this our Sacrifice of praiſe and thankes geuing: […]
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  ChristianitylifestylereligionJesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.

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  ChristianitylifestylereligionThe rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering.

  • The pretensions of the holy see, the authority of tradition, purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, […] were copiously discussed.
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  The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.

  • the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer
  • As rich ſhall Romeo by his Lady [Juliet] lie, / Poore Sacrifices to our Enmitie.
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  bridgegamesIn full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

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  datedslangbusinessA monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold.

  • The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap like some drowned mariner's aboardship. Its patterns were Last Year's and going at a sacrifice, before its breath was gone. Its treasures were mere dirt, beside the riches of its unborn successor!
  • [H]e bought a green shawl for Mrs. Bolton, and a yellow one for Fanny: the most brilliant "sacrifices" of a Regent-street haberdasher's window.

sacrificeverb詞源 2/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/

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  lifestylereligionTo offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.

  • And there ſhall bee no leauened bread ſeene with thee in all thy coaſts ſeuen dayes, neither ſhall there any thing of the fleſh, which thou ſacrificedſt the firſt day at Euen, remaine all night, vntill the morning.
  • [B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]
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  To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.

  • Condemn'd to ſacrifice his childiſh Years / To babling Ign'rance, and to empty Fears; […]
  • Heaven chastises thee, Baharkan! Thou wast cruel, vindictive, and inexorable. With thee humanity had no value. Thou sacrificedst thy brethren on the slightest suspicion.
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  To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.

  • Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.
  • Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesOf a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.

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  datedslangbusinessTo sell (something) at less than its value, thus incurring a monetary loss.

  • A newspaper advertisement announces that "A professional gentleman is instructed to sacrifice Three young sound Horses at half their cost." We wonder what deity horses could be sacrificed to?
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  board-gameschessgamesTo intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.

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  lifestylereligionTo offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.

  • All things come alike to all: there is one euent to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the cleane, and to the vncleane; to him that ſacrificeth, and to him that ſacrificeth not: as is the good, ſo is the ſinner, and hee that ſweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
  • Like a coy maiden, eaſe, vvhen courted moſt, / Fartheſt retires—an idol, at vvhoſe ſhrine / VVho oft'neſt ſacrifice are favor'd leaſt.
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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesOf a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit