sacrifice

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Originally, 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.

   “[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].”

2. isim A 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: […]”

3. isim The 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.”

4. isim Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
5. isim The 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.”

6. isim 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”

7. isim Ellipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).
8. isim In 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.
9. isim A 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!”

10. isim An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
11. fiil To 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.”

12. fiil 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; […]”

13. fiil 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.”

14. fiil Of 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.
15. fiil To 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?”

16. fiil To intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
17. fiil To 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.”

18. fiil Of 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.
19. fiil To make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
20. fiil To celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.