Sacrificant

Sa`crif´ic`ant


n.1.One who offers a sacrifice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The killer or sacrificant, similarly, may need to be prepared and purified, and is often assigned obligations, responsibilities, actions to perform, formulas to recite, even psychological motivations or states of mind to attain or maintain.
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Some are classical in subject: Bacchus in 1841; Naides in 1851; Bacchantes sacrificant in 1855.
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