† sacrificulen.
Obsolete. humorously pedantic.
A priest. The misapprehension in quot. 1604 is found also in a French glossary to Rabelais.
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mass-priesteOE
masserOE
priestOE
rood priest1516
massing priest1554
missara1560
sacrificer1563
Christ-maker1571
sacrificule1604
conficient1614
celebrant1624
missalian1624
missalist1624
waiter at the altar1648
altar-thegn1720
president1945
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Sacrificule, a little offering.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 31 I mumble off little parcels of some missick precation of our sacrificuls.
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