SACRIFICE [FIRST EDITION]. The term sacrifice, from the Latin sacrificium (sacer, "holy"; facere, "to make"), carries the connotation of the religious act in the highest, or fullest sense; it can also be understood as the...

SACRIFICE [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. Since Joseph Henninger's outstanding summary of the literature and practices of sacrifice in world religions, scholars have continued to explore the sacrificial practices, meanings, and conundrums of these...

Sacrifice is a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain or restore the relationship of a human being to the sacred order. In its original usage sacrifice denoted only a religious practice, however, over...

In order to avoid prejudicing the discussion of sacrifice by what it has come to mean in Christian theology, we will do better to use a concrete definition focusing on ritual practices rather than on exegesis. In his ethnography of a tribal religion in...

Offering to *God. Worship in the *Temple in *Jerusalem centred round the offering of sacrifices. *Sin offerings were made by the priests on the *festivals as a propitiation for the nation’s *sin and were also made for individuals (see *TRESPASS...

Act of offering objects to a divinity, thereby making them holy. The motivation for sacrifice is to perpetuate, intensify, or reestablish a connection between the human and the divine. It is often intended to gain the favour of the god or to placate...

Personal affections must be sacrificed for the greater cause. (Chinese) The sacrifice of an ox will not bring us all we want. (Roman) To obey is better than sacrifice. (the...

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Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an...