Sacrifice, vb. 1) to offer up to heaven (or to what is compared with it): Gent. III, 2, 74. R2 I, 1, 104. H6C V, 1, 91. Tit. I, 98. 144 (the --ing fire == the fire of sacrifice).
2) to destroy or give up for the sake of something else: Merch. IV, 1, 286. Tw. V, 133. Rom. V, 3, 268.