The phrase "ritualistic sacrifice" refers to a ritual or ceremony where something or someone, often an animal, is intentionally killed or offered as a gift to a higher power or as a part of a religious or cultural tradition. Full definition
Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the sin to which humanity is enslaved. (redeeminggod.com)
Ancient Maya may have traveled deep into these caves to conduct ritualistic sacrifices to Chac, the god of rain. (discovermagazine.com)
There were blood covenants among many primitive peoples, ratified often by ritualistic sacrifices, but with the assumption that the deities must be appeased, or their vanity flattered, or at best that the honor of the gods depended on the faithfulness of the people. (religion-online.org)