sacrificer

sacrifice +‎ -er

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • 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]:

     Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
     To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
     Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
     For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
     Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.

   • 1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems‎, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:

     In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,
     And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,
     To doe profane autumnall offices,
     Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;

   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:

     So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,
     Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,
     His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;

   • 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In‎, New York: Century, page 35:

     […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.

• sacrificant
• sacrificator
• sacrificatrix
• sacrificial priest
• sacrificial priestess
• sacrificing priest
• sacrificing priestess

• self-sacrificer

sacrificer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrificō