sacrificer

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Noun

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • circa 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 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. ,

     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,

     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,

     […] 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

• French: sacrificateur, sacrificatrice
• German: Opferer, Opfererin, Opfernder, Opfernde, Opferpriester, Opferpriesterin
• Italian: sacrificatore, sacrificatrice
• Spanish: sacrificador, sacrificadora

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