Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Immolate

Immolate , transitive verb

[Latin immolatus, past participle of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]

1.
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but... the virtue and honor of women. — Boyle
2.
To destroy by fire.