Sacrifice

Definitions: Sacrifice

Sacrifice

Noun

1. The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

2. Personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective).

3. A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice".

4. The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.

5. (in baseball) an out that advances the base runners.

Verb

1. Endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war".

2. Kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment".

3. Sell at a loss.

4. Make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals.

Date "sacrifice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Sacrifice

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Sacrifice The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by guilty man. The language and the idea of sacrifice pervade the whole Bible. Sacrifices were offered in the ante-diluvian age. The Lord clothed Adam and Eve with the skins of animals, which in all probability had been offered in sacrifice (Gen. 3:21). Abel offered a sacrifice "of the firstlings of his flock" (4:4; Heb. 11:4). A distinction also was made between clean and unclean animals, which there is every reason to believe had reference to the offering up of sacrifices (Gen. 7:2, 8), because animals were not given to man as food till after the Flood. The same practice is continued down through the patriarchal age (Gen. 8:20; 12:7; 13:4, 18; 15:9-11; 22:1-18, etc.). In the Mosaic period of Old Testament history definite laws were prescribed by God regarding the different kinds of sacrifices that were to be offered and the manner in which the offering was to be made. The offering of stated sacrifices became indeed a prominent and distinctive feature of the whole period (Ex. 12:3-27; Lev. 23:5-8; Num. 9:2-14). (See ALTAR.) We learn from the Epistle to the Hebrews that sacrifices had in themselves no value or efficacy. They were only the "shadow of good things to come," and pointed the worshippers forward to the coming of the great High Priest, who, in the fullness of the time, "was offered once for all to bear the sin of many." Sacrifices belonged to a temporary economy, to a system of types and emblems which served their purposes and have now passed away. The "one sacrifice for sins" hath "perfected for ever them that are sanctified." Sacrifices were of two kinds: 1. Unbloody, such as (1) first-fruits and tithes; (2) meat and drink-offerings; and (3) incense. 2. Bloody, such as (1) burnt-offerings; (2) peace-offerings; and (3) sin and trespass offerings. (See OFFERINGS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Sacrifice

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sacrifice is the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship. The term is also used metaphorically to describe selfless good deeds for others.

The theology of sacrifice remains an issue, not only for religions that continue to practice rituals of sacrifice, but also for those religions that have animal sacrifice in their scriptures, traditions, or histories, even if sacrifice is no longer made. Religions offer a number of reasons for why sacrifices are offered.

Gods need sacrifice to sustain themselves and their power, without which they are diminished.
Sacrificed goods are used to make a bargain with the god, who has promised some favour in return for the sacrifice.
The lives or blood of sacrificial victims contains mana or some other supernatural power whose offering pleases the god.
The sacrificial victim is offered as a scapegoat, a target for the wrath of a god, which otherwise would be visited on the followers.
Sacrifice deprives the followers of food and other useful commodities, and as such constitutes an ascetic discipline.
Sacrificed goods actually become part of a religious organisation's revenue; it is a part of the economic base of support that compensates priests and supports temples.
The sacrifice is actually a part of a festival and is ultimately consumed by the followers themselves.
(''None of these mention the Biblical reasons for sacrifices. Will be added.)
In the Hebrew Bible, God issues a number of commandments for Israelites to offer animal sacrifices in the portable sanctuary, known as the Tabernacle. Once the Israelites were settled in the land of Canaan, all sacrifices were ordered to be ended except those offered in the Temple in Jerusalem. In the Bible God asks for sacrifices as a sign of a covenant between himself and the Israelite people.

Medieval Jewish rationalists like Maimonides reinterpreted the need for sacrifice. In this view, God always held sacrifice inferior to prayer and philosophical meditation. However, God understood that the Israelites were used to the animal sacrifices that the surrounding pagan tribes used as the primary way to commune with their gods. As such, in Maimonides' view, it was only natural that Israelites would believe that sacrifice were be a necessary part of the relationshop between God and man. Maimonides concludes that God's decision to allow sacrifices was a concession to human psychological limitations. It would have been too much to have expected the Israelites to leap from pagan worship to prayer and meditation in one step. In the Guide For the Perplexed he writes:

"But the custom which was in those days general among men, and the general mode of worship in which the Israelites were brought up consisted in sacrificing animals... It was in accordance with the wisdom and plan of God...that God did not command us to give up and to discontinue all these manners of service. For to obey such a commandment would have been contrary to the nature of man, who generally cleaves to that to which he is used; it would in those days have made the same impression as a prophet would make at present [the 12th Century ] if he called us to the service of God and told us in His name, that we should not pray to God nor fast, nor seek His help in time of trouble; that we should serve Him in thought, and not by any action." (Book III, Chapter 32. Translated by M. Friedlander, 1904, The Guide for the Perplexed, Dover Publications, 1956 edition.)

Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease some god or spirit. While not widely know, human sacrifices for religious reasons still exist today in a number of nations, including India.

Some occasions for human sacrifice found in multiple cultures on multiple continents include:

Human sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new temple or bridge.
Sacrifice of people upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrified were supposed to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.
Human sacrifice in times of natural disaster. Droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions etc were seen as a sign of anger or displeasure by deities, and sacrifices were supposed to lessen the divine ire.

Some of the best known ancient human sacrifice was that practiced by various Pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica. The Aztec were particularly noted for practicing this on an unusually large scale; a human sacrifice would be made every day to aid the Sun in rising, the dedication of the great temple at Tenochtitlan was reportedly marked with the sacrificing of thousands, and there are multiple accounts of captured Conquistadores being sacrificed during the wars of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico.

Human sacrifice still happens today as an underground practice in some traditional religions, for example in muti killings. Human sacrifice is no longer officially condoned in any country, and these cases are regarded as murder.

Many people in India are adherents of a religion called Tantrism; a small percent of them still engage in human sacrifice.

Local authorities seem to agree. After a rash of similar killings in the area -- according to an unofficial tally in the English-language Hindustan Times, there have been 25 human sacrifices in western Uttar Pradesh in the last six months alone -- police have cracked down against tantriks, jailing four and forcing scores of others to close their businesses and pull their ads from newspapers and television stations. The killings and the stern official response have focused renewed attention on tantrism, an amalgam of mystical practices that grew out of Hinduism. (In India, case links mysticism, murder John Lancaster, Washington Post, 11/29/2003)

Human sacrifice is a common theme in the religions and mythology of many cultures.

Christians believe that the death of Jesus Christ was a self-sacrifice for mankind's sins.

Spiritual "Principles" are independent of brand name religions, they are discriptions of cosmic laws. In principal sacrifice is to make sacred, to elevate from the mundane world to the super mundane, it is to exchange a lower value to a higher value (in spirit), nothing can be created and nothing destroyed, only transformed. The path of the renounciant exchanges (sacrifices) lower desires, passing thoughts, glamour’s, material objects, social prestige, and so forth for a higher ethereal state or value, it is simple an exchange in the spiritual transformative arts. Voluntary loss is really a fuel for transformation, sacrafice is only valid due to its voluntary nature, never by external socio-religious compulsion, and sacrafice must be voluntary, in this way the personal ego dies and is reformed into it’s spiritual equivalent, if the work of sacrafice is complete.

See also:

Animal sacrifice
Child sacrifice
Human sacrifice
Quetzalcoatl
Babylon
Propitiation
Lycaeus
Greek mythology
Norse mythology
Celts and human sacrifice
Behanzin
Ritual murder
Martyrdom
Scapegoat

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sacrifice."

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Synonyms: Sacrifice

Synonyms: forfeit (n), forfeiture (n), ritual killing (n), give (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sacrifice

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Atonement	Amends, apology, amende honorable, satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.
Destruction	Destroying; Verb: demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, razzia; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; (extraction); beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; (deterioration); sabotage.
	Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.
Disinterestedness	Verb: be disinterested; Adjective: make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the block; put oneself in the place of others, do as one would be done by, do unto others as we would men should do unto us.
Drunkenness	Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
Giving	Tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer; sacrifice, immolate.
	Gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe, pilon.
Husbandry	Phthisozoics. (killing); euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction.
Pain	Labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days; (adversity); go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup full of horrors".
Prediction	Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,
Resolution	At any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.
Worship	Propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms.
	Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sacrifice

English words defined with "sacrifice": Abraham, Aliturgical, Aruspicy ♦ buy ♦ cost, costly ♦ dearly-won ♦ expense ♦ Fair-weather, Februation ♦ General average ♦ hecatomb, Hieromancy, Hieroscopy ♦ immolate, immolation, Immolator, incite, Incruental, Isaac ♦ Lustration ♦ Mactation, Missa, motivate, move ♦ nationalism ♦ Orgies ♦ patriotism, prompt, propel ♦ Sacrificable, Sacrifical, Sacrificant, Sacrificator, Sacrificatory, sacrifice fly, Sacrificed, sacrificer, sacrificial, Sacrificing, Self-devotion, Shintiism, Sin offering ♦ Tephramancy ♦ Unbloody sacrifice, utopian socialism ♦ Victimate ♦ Yielding and paying. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sacrifice": Abel and Cain, Abhigit, act of necessity, Adrammelech, Adsidelta, Age hoc, Altar, Atonement ♦ Baal, Bel-fires, Berenice ♦ Clearness ♦ Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot, diagonal resolution, DRUIDS ♦ First-born, Sanctification of the, Frankum's Night, Funeral ♦ Human Sacrifice ♦ Idomeneus, Insurance, General-Average ♦ Killing-stone ♦ Lamb, Lips ♦ Mustard, My Favourite Toy Language ♦ Oar, Orphan ♦ Pheasant, Phocensian Despair, Proselytes ♦ Sacrifical Anode, Sacrifice to the Graces, Sebastian ♦ telescope, Theater ♦ Wake, Whisky ♦ Zephyr. (references)

Etymologies containing "sacrifice": Mactation ♦ Parentation, Piacle, Purgament ♦ Sacrificable, Sacrificant ♦ thurible, thyme ♦ Victimate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sacrifice" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (oblation, offering, sacrifice, victim).

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Modern Usage: Sacrifice

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes) If I have to sacrifice my integrity for politics, I guess I'll just have to stay a lawyer! (Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter; writing credit: Alan Finney; John D. Lamond) It's like chess, you sacrifice a few pieces, and before you know it--checkmate. (WMAC Masters; writing credit: Alfred Kahn; Carlin West) You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)
Lyrics	It's a sacrifice working day to day. For little money just tips for pay. ("She Works Hard for the Money"; performing artist: Donna Summer)
Clever	The important thing is this: To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Sacrifice (2000) Fields of Sacrifice (1964) Virgin Sacrifice (1959) Love and Sacrifice (1936) The Sacrifice of Isaac (1932)
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Commercial Usage: Sacrifice

Domain	Title
Books	A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Twentieth Century (reference) Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War (reference) Lose Weight and Feel Great Without Sacrifice or Willpower (reference) Sacrifice (reference) The Sacrifice (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	A Certain Sacrifice (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Lo the Full Final Sacrifice & Other Choral Works (reference) Readiness to Sacrifice [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Sacrifice (reference) Sacrifice (Mac) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Sacrifice

Author	Quotation
Henri Frederic Amiel	Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
	Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
James A. Froude	In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Katharine Hepburn	If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Kemal Atat�rk.	A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Leigh Hunt	Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Solon	Let us sacrifice to the Muses.
Swift	When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Theodore Parker	Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
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Historic Usage: Sacrifice

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	I can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength I have that what has been gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
John F. Kennedy	1961	Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. (reference)
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Use in Literature: Sacrifice

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	I hoped I was perfectly equal to any sacrifice of that description.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	On the supposition that I should let her go and sacrifice my own feelings, I should want to know where she is going.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Sacrifice

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Most shipyards in China will sacrifice quality for price. (references)
		Because of the severe shortage of foreign exchange, Chinese end-users are extremely cost conscious and, in many instances, are forced to sacrifice quality and efficiency for a lower price. (references)
Children	Uganda	In April 14, police in Kigunga village in Goma sub-county, in the eastern town of Mukono, arrested three traditional healers for allegedly kidnaping and trying to sacrifice a 13-year-old boy. (references)
Civil Liberties	Kenya	The Commission's widely publicized report included numerous reports of ritual murder, human sacrifice, and cannibalism, and feats of magic allegedly done by using powers acquired through such acts. (references)
	Belarus	In March and April, a State-owned television station presented a series of pseudo-documentaries accusing Protestant churches of engaging in human sacrifice, poisoning children, and other "destructive rituals." In the series, SCRNA officials claimed that Protestant groups were undermining the authority of the government, and needed to be banned from the country. (references)
Economic History	Bolivia	However, his remarkable accomplishments were not won without sacrifice. (references)
	Peru	Workers readily sacrifice these and other benefits in exchange for regular employment. (references)
	El Salvador	Early in their history, they became one of the few Mesoamerican Indian groups to abolish human sacrifice. (references)
Minorities	Cote d'Ivoire	However, there have been no reports of human sacrifice in the country since well before independence. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	Many leaders of religions, such as Christianity or Islam, look down on practitioners of traditional indigenous religions as pagans, practitioners of black magic or human sacrifice. (references)
Worker Rights	Nigeria	The eastern part of Nigeria and some southern states such as Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom have been the sites of trafficking of children for labor and, in some cases, human sacrifice. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool. They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! -- no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. M.P. Nopput
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Speeches: Sacrifice

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference to what appeared to be your desire.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	I hope it is unnecessary for me to say that such a sacrifice will not be made through any agency of mine.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Too many in Government have had to sacrifice too much in economic advantage to serve the Nation.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Nor can their children or grandchildren always sacrifice their own health budgets to meet this constant drain.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We also know that this Nation was not forged and did not survive and grow and prosper without a great deal of sacrifice from a great many men.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	For every good which you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
George Bush	1989-1993	Americans know that leadership brings burdens, and requires sacrifice.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing the sacrifice for it's own sake, but for our own sake, but for our own sake.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	In the sacrifice of soldiers, the fierce brotherhood of firefighters, and the bravery and generosity of ordinary citizens, we have glimpsed what a new culture of responsibility could look like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sacrifice

"Sacrifice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.83% of the time. "Sacrifice" is used about 1,028 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	67.83%	697	9,565
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	26.14%	269	17,948
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.66%	48	49,194
Noun (proper)	1.36%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	1,028	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Sacrifice

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sacrifice".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Zebah	N/A	Biblical	Sacrifice
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Expressions: Sacrifice

Expressions using "sacrifice": at a sacrifice ♦ at the sacrifice of ♦ burnt sacrifice ♦ by the entrails of a human sacrifice ♦ daily sacrifice ♦ death is the ultimate sacrifice ♦ expiatory sacrifice ♦ fall a sacrifice to ♦ human sacrifice ♦ make a sacrifice of ♦ offer a sacrifice ♦ offering a sacrifice ♦ sacrifice fly ♦ sacrifice hit ♦ sacrifice of ♦ sacrifice one's comfort ♦ sacrifice oneself ♦ sacrifice oneself for smb. ♦ sacrifice prices ♦ self sacrifice ♦ sell at a sacrifice ♦ supreme sacrifice ♦ surgical sacrifice ♦ unbloody sacrifice ♦ vicarious sacrifice. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sacrifice": child-sacrifice, human-sacrifice, self-sacrifice, soul-sacrifice, spirit for self-sacrifice, tail-sacrifice.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sacrifice

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sacrifice	459
living sacrifice	132
creed lyrics sacrifice	65
small sacrifice	59
lyrics sacrifice	46
aztec sacrifice	40
human sacrifice	38
creed sacrifice	32
aztec human sacrifice	28
cheat sacrifice	27
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Modern Translations: Sacrifice

Language		Translations for "sacrifice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sakrifikoj (bargain away, immolate, lay down, mortify), sakrifikim (mortification), sakrificë (immolation, oblation, obsecration, offering, privation, sin offering), theror (holocaust, martyr, offering), flijim (immolation), fli (immolation, victim), bëj fli (immolate). (various references)

Arabic		‏فدى, ‏قربان (immolation, oblation, offering), ‏قرب بأضحية, ‏تضحية, ‏ضحية (black sheep, fall guy, martyr, patsy, prey, sinister, sufferer, victim), ‏ضحى (immolate, morning, victimize), ‏ذبيحة (offering), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), ‏أضحية, ‏باع بخسارة. (various references)

Bulgarian		жертвуване, жертвувам (immolate, spend), жертвоприношение (immolation, oblation, offering), жертва (casualty, fall guy, fool, immolation, mug, oblation, offering, patsy, prey, victim), продавам на загуба, продажба на загуба, пожертвуване, пожертвувам, извършвам жертвоприношение. (various references)

Chinese		豁 (clear, crack, exempt, liberal-minded, open, opening, play Chinese finger game, slit, stake all), 犧牲 , 犧 , 牺牲 (Sacrificed, sacrificial, Sacrificing), 瘞 (bury), 禋 . (various references)

Czech		obìtovat (devote, give, immolate, lay down, offer, victimize). (various references)

Danish		tilbyde (advance, offer, offer up, propose, suggest), byde (advance, offer, offer up, propose, suggest). (various references)

Dutch		opofferen (offer, offer up), offeren (offer, offer up). (various references)

Esperanto		oferi (offer, offer up). (various references)

Faeroese		offra (offer, offer up). (various references)

Farsi		فداکاری کردن , فداکاری , قربانی کردن جانبازی , قربانی دادن , قربانی برای شفاعت , قربانی (Prey, Victim). (various references)

Finnish		uhri (casualty, offering, prey, victim), uhraus, uhrata (devote, go to great expense, go to the expense, lay down, spend), teurasuhri, alttiiksiantavaisuus (self-effacement). (various references)

French		sacrifier, sacrifice. (various references)

Frisian		oanbiede (advance, bid, introduce, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, propose, suggest, tender). (various references)

German		opfern (give up, immolate, make a sacrifice of, offer, offer up, to sacrifice, victimize), opfer (casualty, immolation, oblation, offering, prey, price, victim, victims), aufopfern. (various references)

Greek		θυσιάζω (immolate, victimize), θυσία (immolation, offering). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� ח�" (gift, minhah, oblation, offering, present, tribute), לזבוח (immolate, slaughter), לזבח, ל�"קטיר (burn incense), ל�"קריב (immolate), קרבן (gift, offering, victim, vow), זבח (feast, slaughter), �"קרב�" (drawing near, offering a sacrifice). (various references)

Hungarian		áldozat (gambit, holocaust, oblation, prey, victim), áldozás (communion, devotion, holy communion). (various references)

Indonesian		pengorbanan, mengorbankan (set as a pious gift, victimize). (various references)

Irish		íobairt, íobair. (various references)

Italian		sacrificio (oblation, offering, victim), sacrificare (offer sacrifices, victimise, victimize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� 牲 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎせい (bluff, copy, deceiving an enemy, false oath, forgery, imitation, legal fiction, perjury, pseudo), くぎ (meaning of a phrase, nail, sacrificial animal, ward assemblyman), ささ�'もの (offering), いけにえ (scapegoat), サクリファイス , みがわり (a substitute, scapegoat, substitute, substitution). (various references)

Korean		희생 (Sacrificing). (various references)

Manx		ouralley (victimization), oural (altarage, collection, immolation, offering, offertory), jeebyrt (exorcize, expatriation). (various references)

Papiamen		ofrecé (bid, make an offer of, offer, offer up). (various references)

Pig Latin		acrificesay.(various references)

Portuguese		sacrificar (offer, saccharify), sacrifício (cost, devotion, immoral). (various references)

Romanian		se jertfi, sacrificiu (immolation, offering), sacrificare (devotion, giving up, immolation, oblation, renunciation, sacrifice of, sacrificing), sacrifica (immolate, slaughter, spend, victimize), vinde sub preţul de cost, victimã (casualty, holocaust, prey, spoil, victim), renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast aside, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, resign, shunt, sink, spare, surrender, throw up, yield up), prinos (gift, oblation, offering, tribute), ofrandã (alms, donation, gift, holocaust, homage, offering, offerings), jertfi (immolate), jertfã (host, oblation, offering, prey, price, victim), aduce o jertfã. (various references)

Russian		жертвовать (contribute, donate, give away, sacrifices), жертвоприношение (immolation, oblation), жертва (casualty, immolation, oblation, prey, victim), приносить жертву. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žrtvovati (immolate, victimize), žrtvovanje (immolation, oblation, offering, offertory, victimization), žrtva (casualty, offering, patsy, prey, victim). (various references)

Spanish		sacrificio (oblation, offering, slaughter, slaughtering, victim), sacrificar (destroy, do away with, give, give up, lay down, light, poleax, poleaxe, put down, slaughter, throw), presentar (advance, approach, bring forward, bring in, bring on, come through with, come up with, conduct, display, enter, exhibit, feature, file, front, hand in, hold up, introduce, jump, launch, lay, Lodge, Marshal, model, offer, offer up, pay, port, position, prefer, present, present with, produce, promote, put, put across, put forward, put in, put on the stage, put over, put up, race, send in, send up, set, set out, show, submit, table, tackle, tender, troop, turn in, wait on, wait upon), ofrecer (bargain, bid, come through with, come up with, extend, feature, give, hand around, hand round, hold, hold out, improve on, introduce, let out, light, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, present with, proffer, put on the stage, put up, team, tender, throw, throw up, tout, trade in, up, yield). (various references)

Swedish		offra (immolate, lay down, offer, offer up), uppoffring, uppoffra, offer (immolation, offering, sacrificial, victim, victims). (various references)

Tagalog		alukín (offer, offer up). (various references)

Thai		บวงสรวง, สิ่งที่ใช้ในการบวงสรวง, การบวงสรวง, ขายล�"ราคา. (various references)

Turkish		zararına satmak, zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, scathe, wreckage), tanrıya sunma, kurban etmek (immolate, victimize), kurban (fall guy, fatality, holocaust, martyr, oblation, offering, patsy, peace offering, prey, sacrificial, stiff, sufferer, victim), kayıp (bereavement, decrement, forfeit, gone, loss, lost, missing), kıymak (chop up, hack, mince, sliver, solemnize), fedakârlıkta bulunmak (make sacrifices), fedakârlık (abnegation, devotion, self abnegation, self sacrifice, self-abandonment, self-devotion, unselfishness), feda etmek (bargain away, barter away, give away), feda etme, özveri (devotion, self abnegation, self denial, self sacrifice, self-devotion, unselfishness). (various references)

Turkmen		pida, gurban. (various references)

Ukranian		збиток (bad, lesion, loss, wastage), здійснювати пожертву, жертвувати (contribute, donate, render), жертвування (contribution, oblation), жертва (immolation, oblation, offering, prey, victim), продавати зі збитком. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự lỗ, vật bị giết để cúng thần sự hy sinh sự bán lỗ, h� ng bán lỗ. (various references)

Welsh		offrymu (offer), aberthu, aberth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sacrifice

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	zur. (various references)
Akkadian	3000 BCE-Modern	niqu. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carissime, devoveo, hostia, hostiae, hostiam, hostiarum, hostias, hostiis, immola, immolabant, immolabantur, immolabat, immolabimus, immolabis, immolabisque, immolabit, immolabitque, immolabitur, immolabo, immolabunt, immolabuntur, immolamus, immolandas, immolandum, immolans, immolant, immolantes, immolanti, immolantis, immolantur, immolare, immolarent, immolarentur, immolares, immolaret, immolari, immolaris, immolasset, immolasti, immolat, immolata, immolate, immolati, immolatis, immolatisque, immolato, immolatoque, immolatum, immolatur, immolatus, immolaverint, immolaveris, immolaverit, immolaveritis, immolaverunt, immolaveruntque, immolavi, immolavit, immolavitque, immolem, immolemus, immolent, immoles, immolet, immoletis, immoletur, immolo, immolor, mactabis, mactabitur, mactabunt, mactari, mactatis, mactatur, mactaveris, mactaverit, mactaverunt, mactavit, mactavitque, mactet, piaculum, sacra, sacri, sacrificabant, sacrificabat, sacrificabit, sacrificabo, sacrificabunt, sacrificamus, sacrificandum, sacrificant, sacrificantem, sacrificantes, sacrificantibus, sacrificantium, sacrificantur, sacrificare, sacrificarent, sacrificaret, sacrificastis, sacrificate, sacrificatur, sacrificaveritis, sacrificaverunt, sacrificemus, sacrificent, sacrificet, sacrificetis, sacrificia, sacrificiaque, sacrificii, sacrificiis, sacrificio, sacrificioque, sacrificiorum, sacrificium, sacrificum, sacris, sacro, sacrorum, vitualamen. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	ýasna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sacrifice

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Poiein dikaia kai alhqeuein aresta para qew mallon h qusiwn aima
Latin	405	Vulgate	Facere misericordiam et iudicium magis placent Domino quam victimae
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	To do mercy and dom, more pleseth to the Lord, than sacrifises of victorie.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Sacrifice

Language	Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 3
Bulgarian	�"а върши човек правда и правосъдие Е по-угодно за �"оспода от жертва
Cebuano	¶ Ang pagbuhat sa pagkamatarung ug justicia Labi pang dawaton ni Jehova kay sa halad.
Chinese	行仁義公平、 �" 獻祭更 �'� 耶 �'� 華悅納。
Croatian	Da se vrši pravda i èini pravo, draže je Jahvi nego žrtva.
Danish	At øve Ret og Skel er mere værd for HERREN end Offer.
Dutch	Gerechtigheid en recht te doen is bij den HEERE uitgelezener dan offer.
Finnish	Vanhurskauden ja oikeuden harjoittaminen on Herralle otollisempi kuin uhri.
French	La pratique de la justice et de l`équité, Voil� ce que l`Éternel préfère aux sacrifices.
German	Wohl und recht tun ist dem HERRN lieber denn Opfer.
Haitian Creole	¶ Fè sa ki dwat. Pa nan patipri. Sa fè Seyè a plezi pi plis pase bèt ou ta touye pou li.
Hungarian	Az igazságnak és igaz ítéletnek gyakorlását inkább szereti az Úr az áldozatnál.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Perbuatan yang adil dan benar lebih menyenangkan TUHAN daripada segala persembahan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Akan melakukan keadilan dan hukum itu disuka Tuhan terlebih dari pada akan korban.
Italian	Praticare la giustizia e l'equit� per il Signore vale più di un sacrificio.
Korean	의 와 공 평 을 행 하 �" 것 은 � � 사 �"� 리 �" 것 보 다 여 호 와 께 서 기 쁘 게 여 기 시 느 니 라
Maori	¶ Ko te mahi i te tika, i te whakawa, ki ta Ihowa, pai atu i te patunga tapu.
Norwegian	Å gjøre rett og skjel er mere verdt for Herren enn offer.
Portuguese	Fazer justiça e julgar com retidão é mais aceitável ao Senhor do que oferecer-lhe sacrifício.
Rumanian	A face dreptate wi judecatq, este mai plqcut Domnului deckt jertfele. -
Russian	уП�'МА�"ЕОЙЕ � ТБЧ�"Щ Й � ТБЧПУХ�"ЙС �'ПМЕЕ ХЗП�"ОП зПУ� П�"Х, ОЕЦЕМЙ ЦЕТФЧБ.
Spanish	Practicar la justicia y el derecho es más aceptable a Jehovah que el sacrificio.
Swedish	Att öva rättfärdighet och rätt, det är mer värt för HERREN än offer. >1 Sam. 15,22. Jes. 1,11 f. Hos. 6,6.
Thai	ที่จะกระทำความเที่ยงธรรมและความยุติธรรมก็เป็นที่โปร�"ปรานแ�"่พระเยโฮวาห์มากกว่าเครื่องสักการบูชา
Ukrainian	¶ Справедливість та правду чинити для �"оспода це добірніше за жертву.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sacrifice

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sacrifice": sacrificed, sacrificer, sacrificers, sacrifices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sacrifice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sacrafice, sacraficee, sacrfice, sacrifire, sacrifise, scarifice, scarifiie, sucrifice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sacrifice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-f-i-i-r-s"
	-2 letters: carices, fairies, farcies, fiacres.
	-3 letters: caries, caseic, cercis, cerias, crisic, ericas, facers, facies, farces, farcie, ferias, fiacre, fraise, scarce.
	-4 letters: acres, afire, areic, arise, cafes, cares, carse, cerci, ceria, ceric, circa, cires, cries, erica, escar, facer, faces, fairs, farce, farci, fares, fears, feria, fiars, fices, fires, fries, frise, icier, races, raise, reifs, rices, safer, saice, scare, scarf, serac, serai, serif.
	-5 letters: aces, acre, airs, arcs, ares, arfs, arse, asci, cafe, care, cars, case, ceca, cire, cris, ears, eras, face, fair, fare, fear, fiar, fice, fire, firs, fisc, frae, ices, ires, iris, race, rase, recs, refs, reif, reis, rias, rice, rife, rifs, rise, safe, sari, scar, sear, seif, sera, serf, sice, sire.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-f-i-i-r-s"
	+1 letter: sacrificed, sacrificer, sacrifices.
	+2 letters: sacrificers.
	+3 letters: certificates, saccharified, saccharifies.
	+4 letters: farcicalities, infraspecific, intraspecific, prolificacies.
	+5 letters: certifications, rectifications.
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