immolation

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  1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated. In the picture of the immolation of Isaac, or Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac is described as a little boy. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 8. Oh, if our ends were less achievable By slow approaches than by single act Of immolation, any phase of death, We were as prompt to spring against the pikes, Or down the fiery gulf, as talk of it. Tennyson, Princess, iii.
  2. A sacrificial offering; a sacrifice. We make more barbarous immolations than the most savage heathens. Decay of Christian Piety.
  3. The title of the eucharistic preface in the Gallican liturgy: so called because it is an introduction to the sacrifice of the mass. See preface, 2.

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  • Although there were some few score who went ahead with self-immolation, the results were graceless, brutal, and unsanitary. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
  • No one has yet successfully explained to the Western mind this Japanese phenomenon of self-immolation, and perhaps it is not given to the Westerner to understand it. —  The Divine Wind
  • No one could have predicted that the global economy would begin its self-immolation, a full —  Balloon Juice
  • Rights groups said the self-immolation was a protest against religious restrictions. —  news | FT | http://www.timesdaily.com
  • "The monk has been treated in hospital after self-immolation, and he hasn't explained to us why he did so," said Wang Jun, head of the Aba County in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
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  1. = French immolation = Spanish inmolacion = Portuguese immolação = Italian immolazione, from Latin immolatio(n-), inmolatio(n-), from immolare, inmolare, sacrifice: see immolate.
 

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