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One who offers a sacrifice. [R.]

A sacrificer; one who offers a sacrifice. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Offering sacrifice. [R.] Sherwood.

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton.

One who sacrifices.

Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice. "Sacrificial rites." Jer. Taylor.

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. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the sp…

Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.

One guilty of sacrilege.

a. & n. from Sacre. Sacring bell. See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

A apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

A combining form denoting connection with, or relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccyageal, sacro-iliac, sacrosciatic.

Sacred; inviolable. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and hip bone.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also Sauks.]

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.