Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sacrifice
Sacrifice
sacrifice
n. & v. --n. 1 a the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else more important or worthy. b a thing given up in this way. c the loss entailed in this. 2 a the slaughter of an animal or person or the surrender of a possession as an offering to a deity. b an animal, person, or thing offered in this way. 3 an act of prayer, thanksgiving, or penitence as propitiation. 4 Theol. a Christ's offering of himself in the Crucifixion. b the Eucharist as either a propitiatory offering of the body and blood of Christ or an act of thanksgiving. 5 (in games) a loss incurred deliberately to avoid a greater loss or to obtain a compensating advantage. --v. 1 tr. give up (a thing) as a sacrifice. 2 tr. (foll. by to) devote or give over to. 3 tr. (also absol.) offer or kill as a sacrifice. Derivatives sacrificial adj. sacrificially adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L sacrificium f. sacrificus (as SACRED)
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I. noun see: do Date: 13th century an act of offering to a deity something precious, something offered in ~, 3. destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else, something given up or lost , loss , ~ hit, II. verb (-ficed; -ficing) Date: 14th century transitive verb to offer as a ~, to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end, to sell at a loss, to advance (a base runner) by means of a ~ hit, to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experiment, intransitive verb to make or perform the rites of a ~, to make a ~ hit in baseball, ~r noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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