Sacrifice

.—any thing which is offered up to hea­ven, by way of staying the rage of the Deity against sinners; “and the same lamb which was offered up to appease an irritated Deity, served to appease the appetite of the hungry priest.” Mandeville.

In modern times, human sacrifices have been used by pious princes, instead of those of the brute creation; and some faithful generals, obedient to the mandates of their truly Christian masters, have sa­crificed twenty and thirty thousand of human beings in a day; which plainly shows that they have always the fear of God before their eyes.