Dictionary

sacrificer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós Proto-Italic *sakros Archaic Latin sakros Old Latin sacros Old Latin *sakr̥s Old Latin *sakerr Latin sacerder. Latin sacrum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin sacrificiumlbor. Old French sacrifisebor. Middle English sacrifice English sacrifice Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English sacrificer From sacrifice + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks, Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox, His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground; 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:
   • 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; 1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:
   • 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. 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]:
   • […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim. 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In, New York: Century, page 35:

Forms

Relateds

self-sacrificer

Synonyms

sacrificing priestess · sacrificant · sacrificial priestess · sacrificing priest · sacrificatrix · sacrificial priest · sacrificator

Translations (17)

de Opfererin (someone who sacrifices) · grc θυτήρ (someone who sacrifices) · it sacrificatrice (someone who sacrifices) · es sacrificador (someone who sacrifices) · la sacrificātor (someone who sacrifices) · el θυσιαστής (someone who sacrifices) · fr sacrificatrice (someone who sacrifices) · la sacrificātrīx (someone who sacrifices) · de Opfernde (someone who sacrifices) · es sacrificadora (someone who sacrifices) · hi बलिदानी (someone who sacrifices) · de Opferer (someone who sacrifices) · de Opferpriesterin (someone who sacrifices) · it sacrificatore (someone who sacrifices) · de Opferpriester (someone who sacrifices) · de Opfernder (someone who sacrifices) · fr sacrificateur (someone who sacrifices)