sacrificer

sacrificer

English

Etymology

sacrifice +‎ -er

Noun

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • 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 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     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 [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838, page 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

someone who sacrifices

French: sacrificateur (fr) m, sacrificatrice (fr) f German: Opferer m, Opfererin f, Opfernder m, Opfernde f, Opferpriester m, Opferpriesterin f Greek: θυσιαστής (el) m (thysiastís) Ancient: θυτήρ m (thutḗr) Italian: sacrificatore (it) m, sacrificatrice f Latin: sacrificātor m, sacrificātrīx f Spanish: sacrificador m, sacrificadora (es) f

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Latin

Verb

sacrificer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrificō