Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sacrifices.
  • noun Specifically, a priest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who sacrifices.

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  • noun Someone who sacrifices.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a religious person who offers up a sacrifice

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Examples

  • Trapp is angry that he calls the sacrificer in the Georgicks

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The sacrificer is the one who takes the leap for her friends, and in tough times, we lean on this person, who will answer her phone in the dead of night to console you.

    Therese Borchard: 10 Types Of Female Friends: How Many Do You Have? 2009

  • “He,” that is, the sacrificer, denotes the person of

    A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

  • In their essence sacrifices are not popular festivals or holidays but private services, performed for the benefit of the sacrificer, that is, the person who pays the fees of the priests.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • _ 359 Śatakratu_, Lord of a hundred sacrifices, the performance of a hundred _Aśvamedhas_ or sacrifices of a horse entitling the sacrificer to this exalted dignity.

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • The sacrificer is the one who takes the leap for her friends, and in tough times, we lean on this person, who will answer her phone in the dead of night to console you.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • After appropriate offerings were made, the priestess replied in verse: “The bull is ready for slaughter, the end is near, the sacrificer is present.”

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • It was a typically ambiguous response from Delphi, but Philip chose to interpret it favorably, seeing the bull as Persia and himself as the sacrificer.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • After appropriate offerings were made, the priestess replied in verse: “The bull is ready for slaughter, the end is near, the sacrificer is present.”

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • It was a typically ambiguous response from Delphi, but Philip chose to interpret it favorably, seeing the bull as Persia and himself as the sacrificer.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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