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.-a sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.-to make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of god, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.-hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.-to destroy; to kill.-to sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.-to make offerings to god, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.