sacrificialadj.
/sakrɪˈfɪʃəl/ 1.
a. Relating to or connected with sacrifice.
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society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [adjective]
sacrificatory1581
sacrificingc1595
sacrifical1608
oblatory1611
sacrificiala1616
anathematic1843
offertorial1856
oblational1867
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 82 Raine Sacrificiall whisperings in his eare. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sacrificial (sacrificialis) of or belonging to a Sacrifice, Offering, or Oblation.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist i. 53 This Observation will be of use, when we come to consider the Eucharist in its Sacrificial View.
1799 W. Gilpin Serm. Country Congregat., etc. III. xxxviii. (R.) The law may be explained as an institution..threatening judgment on every transgression; at the same time, accepting, in mercy, certain sacrificial atonements.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 277 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks, that can resist the action of fire.
1864 F. M. Müller Chips (1867) I. 104 Innumerable sacrificial utensils.
1864 F. M. Müller Chips (1867) I. 110 All this would be embodied in the sacrificial formulas known in later times principally by the name of Yagush.
b. sacrificial mound n. a prehistoric mound built by the indigenous inhabitants of certain parts of America and containing a hearth or altar, on which are found relics exhibiting traces of the action of fire.
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society > faith > artefacts > land > structures of or in land > [noun] > sacrificial mound
sacrificial mound1862
1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man I. xii. 370 The name of sacrificial mounds has been conferred on a class of ancient monuments..peculiar to the New World.
2. Self-sacrificing.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [adjective] > self-sacrificing
devotive1608
self-devoted1630
self-givinga1631
self-sacrificing1654
self-devoting1668
self-surrendering1668
self-devotional1837
self-sacrificial1842
sacrificial1890
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 160 ‘That's all very well’, said the sacrificial parent, ‘but five or six hours are not so easy to dispose of at sixty odd’.
3. Commerce. Involving ‘sacrifice’ or loss to the vendor.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [adjective] > involving loss to vendor
sacrificial1895
1895 Daily News 24 Dec. 6/2 Jewelled trimmings..will be sold at much reduced prices during next week's sacrificial sales.
1902 Daily Chron. 19 June 7/2 The first Monday in July, the traditional date for the opening of the summer sales, when ladies demand sacrificial prices.
4. Involving or being an anode of a metal that is used up when protecting another metal against electrolytic corrosion.
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the world > matter > chemistry > ions, ionization, or electrolysis > [adjective] > of or relating to electrolysis > involving or being a sacrificial anode
sacrificial1861
1861 Mechanics' Mag. 5 Apr. 229/1 A curious statement made in the House of Commons, a few days ago, induces us to offer a few remarks on what may be called, appropriately enough, ‘the sacrificial function in metals’... Failing..to achieve what was intended of it, the copper-protecting process of Davy ceased to be employed; but the failure of it is that which alone concerns us here, as illustrating what we would wish to convey by the words sacrificial metal.
1937 U. R. Evans Metallic Corrosion Passivity & Protection xii. 531 The protection method is sacrificial, the valuable iron boiler being protected by sacrificing the easily replaceable zinc.
1949 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 97 598 A sufficient cathodic current density may be impressed upon structures of iron or steel by the use of external anodes of magnesium, aluminium or zinc, the anode undergoing ‘sacrificial corrosion’.
1968 Rep. Progr. Appl. Chem. LIII. 69 It was better to use an all-nickel coating..rather than a copper undercoat where sacrificial corrosion resulted in complete loss of plate.
1976 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 7/1 It is common practice to fit the pipes with collars of a zinc alloy, which act as ‘sacrificial anodes’, corroding in preference to the steel pipe.
1978 Metals (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 7 Zinc is ideal as a sacrificial metal for the corrosion-protection of steel.
Derivatives
sacriˈficialness n. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [noun] > sacrificial quality
sacrificialness1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sacrificialness, the being of the Nature of a Sacrifice.
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