different between sacrifice vs sacrificer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrific? (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faci? (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæk??fa?s/
• Hyphenation: sac?ri?fice

Verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
2. (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
   • 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)

     Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.

   • “God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.

   • 1857, George Eliot, s:Scenes of Clerical Life

     The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum […] for the sake of […] making this boy his heir.

3. (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
   • 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

     If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.

4. (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
5. (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
6. (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
7. To destroy; to kill.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to offer to a deity): Molochize
• (to sell without profit): sell at a loss

Derived terms

• sacrificial

Translations

Noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

1. The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
2. The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.

   the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer

   1. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
3. Something sacrificed.
4. A loss of profit.
5. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrificium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.k?i.fis/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

sacrifice m (plural sacrifices)

1. sacrifice

Related terms

• sacrificiel
• sacrifier

Further reading

• “sacrifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

sacrifice

1. vocative masculine singular of sacrificus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa?krifit??e]

Verb

sacrifice

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of sacrifica
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of sacrifica

English

Etymology

sacrifice +? -er

Noun

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • c. 1599,, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     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, London: John Marriot, 1633, p. ,^[2]

     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 (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 12, p. 418,^[3]

     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, The World I Live In, New York: Century, Chapter 3, p. 35,^[4]

     […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.

Synonyms

• sacrificant
• sacrificator
• sacrificatrix
• sacrificial priest
• sacrificial priestess
• sacrificing priest
• sacrificing priestess

Related terms

• self-sacrificer

Translations

Latin

Verb

sacrificer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrific?