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victimary en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French victimaire, from Latin victimārius, from victima + -ārius.

Meanings

1. (historical) A person whose role it is to kill the sacrificial victim(s) during a ritual sacrifice.
   • Two of the ministri support a pole or brancard, from which hangs a situla (pail with handles); a third has charge of a huge ox, over whose head floats a bird like Progne; whilst a victimary drags by the horns a goat, sacred to Mars. 1876, Richard Francis Burton, Etruscan Bologna: A Study, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 43:

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victimaries	Number=Plur		lexicographic

victimary en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From victim + -ary.

Meanings

1. (rare) Relating to victim(s) or victimhood.
   • Ansay reinserts the victim at the heart of what the violence of independence can signify: the second part of the text leaves behind the revolutionary government's processes of self-construction and represents the experience of independence exclusively from this victimary perspective. 2022, Catriona McAllister, Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence: History, Fiction, Politics, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, page 42:

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most victimary	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more victimary	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic