burnt sacrifice

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sacrifice \Sac"ri*fice\ (?; 277), n. [OE. sacrifise, sacrifice, F. sacrifice, fr. L. sacrificium; sacer sacred + facere to make. See Sacred, and Fact.]

1.The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. [1913 Webster]

Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster]

Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

3.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. [1913 Webster]

4.A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. [Tradesmen's Cant] [1913 Webster]

Burnt sacrifice. See Burnt offering, under Burnt.

Sacrifice hit (Baseball), in batting, a hit of such a kind that the batter loses his chance of tallying, but enables one or more who are on bases to get home or gain a base. [1913 Webster]

Burnt \Burnt\, p. p. & a. Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. [1913 Webster]

Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut.

Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. --[2 Sam. xxiv. 22.] [1913 Webster]