sacrificern.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 90 Quhy teche ze.. that the wordis of sanctificatioun of the sacrament of our Lordis body and bluid ar nocht to be pronounceit to the end, that thair suld be ony transubstantiatioun thairby, or be the intent of the sacrificear [Edinb. MS. sacrifiar]?

1597 Certain Prayers in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (Parker Soc.) 672 We..live and die the sacrificers of our souls for such obtained favour.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 2 A famous man in Israel could not but oblige his conscience to be the sacrificer..of his innocent and onely daughter.

1743 R. Blair Grave 10 Like..Victim..That throbs beneath the Sacrificer's Knife.

1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) xii. 305 The earthly sacrificer truly exhibits to the Father that body of Christ which is the one only Sacrifice for sins.

1884 Whiton in Christian World 4 Sept. 663/2 Paul boldly intimates, that if Christ is the only sacrificer and sufferer for humanity, then something is lacking in the saving work of the Saviour.

1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Bk. Marchauntes (new ed.) e v b It is much better to here..Helie alone than all the sacryficers of Baal.

?1548 tr. P. Viret Verie Familiare Expos. Art. Christian Faieth sig. Eiv Whyche was figured by the kynges and prophetes of Israell, and by the sacrificers of the Leuites.

1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 168 The great sacrificer and high priest Melchisedech.

1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. xii. 385 He being a Jewish Priest, a legal Sacrificer.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iii. 24 The patriarchal Heads of Families, who..were the only Sacrificers at that Time, as Abraham, and as Job were.

1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire iii. viii. 518 The chief sacrificer advanced, leading a Hebrew boy,..whom he laid upon the altar.

1562 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) Table of Matters at Orders Of Priesthode or sacrificership.