The Meaning of sacrifice

• (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
• (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
• (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
• (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
• (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
• (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
• (n.) To destroy; to kill.
• (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
• (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

Synonyms

forfeit , forfeiture , ritual killing , give

Rhymes

advice , allspice , berneice , bice , brice , bryce , buysse , concise , deiss , device , devise , deweiss , dice , dise , dyce , edelweiss , entice , excise , feis , fleiss , fordyce , geise , gneiss , grice , guice , heise , heiss , hice , ice , imprecise , kies , kleiss , kreiss , lice , meiss , mice , midprice , misprice , nice , nyce , overprice , paradise , precise , preiss , price , pryce , reiss , reprice , rice , slice , spice , splice , stice , suffice , theiss , thrice , tice , trice , twice , tyce , underprice , vice , vise , weis , weiss , weisse , wice , wrice , zeiss