immolator

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

immolator (plural immolators)

1. One who offers in sacrifice.
2. (historical) One of a sect of Russian fanatics who practised self-mutilation and sacrifice.

Related terms

• immolate
• self-immolator

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “immolator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

immolātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of immolō

References

• “immolator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “immolator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• immolator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.