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  • 41make — verb Make is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑batsman, ↑company, ↑factory, ↑firm, ↑picture, ↑recipe, ↑sale Make is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accommodation, ↑accompaniment, ↑accusation, ↑ …

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  • 42sacrifice — sac·ri·fice || sækrɪfaɪs n. act of making an offering to a god; person or item which is offered to a god; surrender of something for the sake of something more valuable; loss caused by selling something below cost v. make an offering to a… …

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  • 43Burnt sacrifice — 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… …

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  • 44Child sacrifice — See also: Religious abuse and Infanticide Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice …

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  • 45Queen sacrifice — is the term used in chess when a player s queen (the most powerful piece) is deliberately sacrificed (allowed to be captured by the enemy without recapturing the enemy queen in return). A queen is too valuable to sacrifice for mere positional… …

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  • 46Human sacrifice — is the act of homicide (the killing of one or several human beings) in the context of a religious ritual (ritual killing). Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals (animal sacrifice) and of religious… …

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  • 47Human sacrifice in Aztec culture — Human sacrifice was an aspect of historical Aztec culture/religion, although the extent of the practice is debated by scholars. The Spaniards who first met the Aztecs explicitly stated in their writings that human sacrifice was widely practiced… …

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  • 48Child sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures — This is a sub article of child sacrifice and human sacrifice. Aztec burial of a sacrificed child at Tlatelolco. The practice of child sacrifice in Pre Columbian cultures, in particular Mesoamerican and South American cultures, is well documented… …

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  • 49Holocaust (sacrifice) — A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire. The word derives from the Ancient Greek holocaustos ( ὁλόκαυστος = ὁλον [wholely] + καυστος burnt), which is used solely for one of the major forms of sacrifice.… …

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