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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Immolate

/ĭm'-əl-ātˌ/ · Im·mo·late · IPA /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
01 v. t. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating
  1. 1.
    To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
    “Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women.” Boyle.
  2. 2.
    To destroy by fire.