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sacrificer
English
Etymology
sacrifice +? -er
Noun
sacrificer (plural sacrificers)
- 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.
- c. 1599,, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
Synonyms
- sacrificant
- sacrificator
- sacrificatrix
- sacrificial priest
- sacrificial priestess
- sacrificing priest
- sacrificing priestess
Related terms
- self-sacrificer
Translations
Latin
Verb
sacrificer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrific?
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sacrifier
English
Noun
sacrifier (plural sacrifiers)
- The individual or group that is to receive the practical benefits of the sacrifice.
Anagrams
- scarifier
See also
- sacrifice
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sacrific?, sacrific?re (“sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.k?i.fje/
Verb
sacrifier
- to sacrifice (all meanings)
Conjugation
Related terms
- sacrifice
- sacrer
Further reading
- “sacrifier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- scarifier
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