A sacrifice offered to a deity by burning. (As the word is chiefly familiar in Scriptural use, it naturally suggests in the first place the animal sacrifices of the Jews.) So also Burnt-sacrifice.
1382. Wyclif, Mark xii. 33. More than alle brend offringis [v.r. sacrifices] and sacrificis.
1535. Coverdale, Job i. 5. Job … offred for every one a brentofferinge.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Sacrifice, When the victim was slain, they flayed him, if it was not a burnt-offering (for then they burnt skin and all).
1852. Grote, Greece, II. lxxi. IX. 236. Have you ever sacrificed to him with entire burnt-offerings as we used to do together at Athens?
1382. Wyclif, Ex. xx. 24. Ȝe shulen offre vpon it ȝoure brent sacrifices.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 21. I offer my self to the this mornyng in ane brounte sacrifice.
1611. Bible, 2 Kings xvi. 15. Burne … the Kings burnt sacrifice.
