sagittary

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Of this sort is the "dreadful sagittary," who is still retained in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida on the ultimate authority (when it comes to be looked into) of Benoit de Sainte More.

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  1. Pertaining to an arrow or to archery. With such differences of reeds, vallatory, sagittary, scriptory, and others, they might be furnished in Judæa. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, i.
  2. [capitalized] The constellation Sagittarius.
  3. A centaur; specifically [capitalized], a centaur fabled to have been in the Trojan army. Also in our lande been ye Sagittary, the whyche ben fro the myddel vpward lyke men, and fro ye myddel donwarde ben they lyke the halfe neder parte of an horse, and they bere bowes and arowes. R. Eden (First Books on America, ed. Arber, p. xxxiii.). The dreadful Sagittary Appals our numbers. Shak., T. and C., v. 5. 14.
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  1. = Old French sagitaire, sagetaire, French sagittaire = Spanish Portuguese sagitario = Italian sagittario, one of the zodiacal signs, from Latin sagittarius, pertaining to arrows, as a noun an archer, an arrowsmith, the constellation of the Archer. from sagitta, an arrow: see sagitta.
 

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