sacrificer
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sacrificer (plural sacrificers)
- Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
- 1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems[1], London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:
- In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,
And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,
To doe profane autumnall offices,
Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;
- 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:
- So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,
Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,
His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;
- 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In[2], New York: Century, page 35:
- […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.
Synonyms[edit]
- sacrificant
- sacrificator
- sacrificatrix
- sacrificial priest
- sacrificial priestess
- sacrificing priest
- sacrificing priestess
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
someone who sacrifices
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Verb[edit]
sacrificer