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Sacrifice is the
offering of
material possessions or the
lives of
animals or
humans to a
deity as an act of
propitiation or worship.
Evidence of ritual...
- Look up
sacrifice,
sacrificer, or
sacrificial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
sacrifice is the
practice of
offering food, or the
lives of animals...
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Human sacrifice is the act of
killing one or more
humans as part of a ritual,
which is
usually intended to
please or
appease gods, a
human ruler, public...
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explanation of
other sacrifices,
particularly those not
related to sins. A
similar suggestion is that by
laying hands, the
sacrificer designates the animal...
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Before long, the
Christian Inge
decided to kill the
pagan Sweyn:
Svein the
Sacrificer was King of
Sweden for
three years. King Ingi set off with his retinue...
- In baseball, a
sacrifice bunt (also
called a
sacrifice hit) is a batter's act of
deliberately bunting the ball,
before there are two outs, in a manner...
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Demetrius II the Self-
Sacrificer or the
Devoted (Georgian: დემეტრე II თავდადებული, romanized: demet're II tavdadebuli) (1259–12
March 1289) of the Bagrationi...
- In baseball, a
sacrifice fly (sometimes
abbreviated to sac fly) is
defined by Rule 9.08(d): "Score a
sacrifice fly when,
before two are out, the batter...
- A
sacrifice zone or
sacrifice area (often
termed a
national sacrifice zone or
national sacrifice area) is a
geographic area that has been
permanently changed...
- skin, he
proceeds to boil it. [...] Then when the
flesh is boiled, the
sacrificer takes a
first offering of the
flesh and of the
vital organs and casts...
