- Give up or surrender something - Kill or destroy - Offering - Offering to a deity - The offering of anything to God, or to a god;
consecratory rite. - 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. - 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.