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Sacrificatory
() Offering sacrifice.
Sacrifice
() The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
Sacrifice
() Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
Sacrifice
() Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
Sacrifice
() A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Sacrificed
() of Sacrifice
Sacrificing
() of Sacrifice
Sacrifice
() To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
Sacrifice
() Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
Sacrifice
() To destroy; to kill.
Sacrifice
() To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Sacrifice
() To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
Sacrificer
() One who sacrifices.
Sacrificial
() Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.
Sacrilege
() The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
Sacrilegious
() Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious.
Sacrilegist
() One guilty of sacrilege.
Sacring
() a. & n. from Sacre.
Sacrist
() A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.
Sacristan
() An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
Sacristies
() of Sacristy
Shoeing-horn
() A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.
Shoeing-horn
() Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt.
Shoeing-horn
() Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
Shoeless
() Destitute of shoes.
Shoemaker
() One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
Shoemaker
() The threadfish.
Shoemaker
() The runner, 12.
Shoemaking
() The business of a shoemaker.
Shoer
() One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.
Shog
() A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.
Shog
() To shake; to shock.
Shog
() To jog; to move on.
Shoggle
() To joggle.
Shogun
() A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.
Shogunate
() The office or dignity of a Shogun.
Shola
() See Sola.
Shole
() A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.
Shole
() See Shoal.
Shonde
() Harm; disgrace; shame.
Shone
() imp. & p. p. of Shine.
Shoo
() Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.
Shooi
() The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry.
Shook
() imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
Shook
() A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
Shook
() A set of boards for a sugar box.
Shook
() The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Shook
() To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Shoon
() pl. of Shoe.
Shoop
() imp. of Shape. Shaped.