† sacrificaladj.
Obsolete.
Pertaining to or employed in sacrifice.
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sacrificatory1581
sacrificingc1595
sacrifical1608
oblatory1611
sacrificiala1616
anathematic1843
offertorial1856
oblational1867
1608 J. Panke Fal of Babel 28 The blessed chalice of the aultar..hath the verie sacrifical blood in it that was shed vpon the Crosse.
1686 W. Wake Expos. Doctr. Church of Eng. 65 When we examine the first Institution of this holy Communion, we cannot perceive either in the words or action of our Blessed Saviour, any Sacrifical Act or Expression.
1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 502 A priestess of Bacchus, which in one hand holds the sacrifical knife.
1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1802) IV. 510 The sacrifical ministers (who were a sort of intruders in the worship of the new divinity).
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adj.1608- to the wide
- to the wind
- to the winds
- to the windward
- to the world
- to the world's end
- to the worldward
- to the worse
- to thin off, down
- to thin out
- to thin out away
- to thin out off
- to think about the unthinkable
- to think again
- to think ahead
- to think aloud
- to think amiss
- to think amiss of
- to think away
- to think back
- to think back on
- to think back to
- to think badly of
- to think better of
- to think better of it