See sacrificer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sacrifice",
"3": "er",
"id2": "agent noun"
},
"expansion": "sacrifice + -er",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From sacrifice + -er.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sacrificers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sacrificer (plural sacrificers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,\nTo cut the head off and then hack the limbs,\nLike wrath in death and envy afterwards;\nFor Antony is but a limb of Caesar:\nLet us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:",
"text": "In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,\nAnd will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,\nTo doe profane autumnall offices,\nWhilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:",
"text": "So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,\nBefore an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,\nHis Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In, New York: Century, page 35:",
"text": "[…] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice."
],
"id": "en-sacrificer-en-noun-X3S8jYCl",
"links": [
[
"sacrifice",
"sacrifice"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "self-sacrificer"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sacrificant"
},
{
"word": "sacrificator"
},
{
"word": "sacrificatrix"
},
{
"word": "sacrificial priest"
},
{
"word": "sacrificial priestess"
},
{
"word": "sacrificing priest"
},
{
"word": "sacrificing priestess"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificateur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificatrice"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opferer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opfererin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opfernder"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opfernde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opferpriester"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opferpriesterin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thysiastís",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "θυσιαστής"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "thutḗr",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "θυτήρ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificatrice"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificātor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificātrīx"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificador"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificadora"
}
]
}
],
"word": "sacrificer"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sacrifice",
"3": "er",
"id2": "agent noun"
},
"expansion": "sacrifice + -er",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From sacrifice + -er.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sacrificers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sacrificer (plural sacrificers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "self-sacrificer"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,\nTo cut the head off and then hack the limbs,\nLike wrath in death and envy afterwards;\nFor Antony is but a limb of Caesar:\nLet us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:",
"text": "In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,\nAnd will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,\nTo doe profane autumnall offices,\nWhilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:",
"text": "So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,\nBefore an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,\nHis Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In, New York: Century, page 35:",
"text": "[…] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice."
],
"links": [
[
"sacrifice",
"sacrifice"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sacrificant"
},
{
"word": "sacrificator"
},
{
"word": "sacrificatrix"
},
{
"word": "sacrificial priest"
},
{
"word": "sacrificial priestess"
},
{
"word": "sacrificing priest"
},
{
"word": "sacrificing priestess"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificateur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificatrice"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opferer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opfererin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opfernder"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opfernde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Opferpriester"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Opferpriesterin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "thysiastís",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "θυσιαστής"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "thutḗr",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "θυτήρ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificatrice"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificātor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificātrīx"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrificador"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "someone who sacrifices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sacrificadora"
}
],
"word": "sacrificer"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sacrificer meaning in English (4.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.