sacrificer

Noun

sacrificer (plural sacrificers)

1. Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
   • 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.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]...
   • 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;1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p

   Synonyms:

   sacrificant, sacrificator, sacrificatrix, sacrificial priest, sacrificial priestess, sacrificing priest, sacrificing priestess