mactate

Verb

mactate (third-person singular simple present mactates, present participle mactating, simple past and past participle mactated)

1. (rare, transitive) To kill in sacrifice.
   • As has been shown, it is historically true that a vulgar opinion to the effect that Christ was separately mactated in the sacrifices of masses prevailed at the time of the Reformation, which opinion being perfectly analogous to that which the Apostle combats, nothing could be more appropriate than...1860, The Rev. William Henderson et al., Theological Defence for the Right Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, D.C.L., Bishop of Brechin, page 74
   • Precisely so, for in both cases, it is not mere obedience which is being offered, the quality of ‘doing what you are told’, ‘yours not to reason why’, but the obedience of a people under covenant, who offer sacrifice, because they have been told to and because they express their obedience in terms...1988, Godfrey Ashby, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Purpose, SCM, →ISBN, page 60, →ISBN